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Effectiveness of interactive augmented reality-based telerehabilitation in patients with adhesive capsulitis: protocol for a multi-center randomized controlled trial
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Cited 4 time in Scopus
- Authors
- Issue Date
- 2021-04-26
- Publisher
- BMC
- Citation
- BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders. 2021 Apr 26;22(1):386
- Keywords
- Adhesive capsulitis ; Telerehabilitation ; Multi-center randomized controlled trial ; Augmented reality
- Abstract
- Background
As the primary treatment for adhesive capsulitis, intensive and accurate home exercise is as important as physical therapy in hospitals. Augmented reality (AR)-based telerehabilitation has been implemented recently in various musculoskeletal conditions to increase patient compliance and enable patients to exercise with the correct posture. The objective of this study is to present a protocol for investigating the additive effect of interactive AR-based telerehabilitation in comparison with the usual care for patients with adhesive capsulitis.
Methods
This study presents the protocol of a prospective, multi-center, single-blinded, two-armed randomized controlled trial (RCT). One hundred patients with stage I or II adhesive capsulitis will be recruited at the physical medicine and rehabilitation clinic. Patients will be randomly divided into two groups with 1:1 allocation. The intervention group will receive 3 months of hospital-based physical therapy in conjunction with home-based telerehabilitation. The control group will receive 3 months of hospital-based physical therapy in conjunction with a home-based exercise described in a brochure provided by the hospital. The primary outcome will be the change in passive range of motion (ROM) of the affected shoulder joint from baseline to 12 weeks after baseline assessment. The secondary outcomes will be active ROM, pain measured with the numeric rating scale, shoulder pain and disability index, 36-Item Short Form Survey, EuroQoL-5D-5L, and Canadian Occupational Performance Measure.
Discussion
This will be the first RCT study protocol to investigate the effect of telerehabilitation in patients with adhesive capsulitis. The result of this RCT will determine whether AR-based telerehabilitation is more effective than a brochure-based home exercise program and will provide evidence of the usefulness of telerehabilitation using hardware (IoT) and software (monitoring platform) technologies to develop digital therapeutics for the future.
Trial registration
This trial was retrospectively registered at the
Clinicaltrials.gov
website on 20 March 2020, with the identifier
NCT04316130
- ISSN
- 1471-2474
- Language
- English
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