NCT06092489

Chronic Rotator Cuff-related Shoulder Pain and Graded Motor Imagery

Completed NA Last updated 11 July 2024

What this trial tests

NA trial testing graded motor imagery in Chronic Pain in 30 participants. Completed in 10 July 2024.

Timeline

20 October 2023

Primary endpoint
13 June 2024

10 July 2024

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Nuray Alaca
Phase	NA
Status	Completed
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	double
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	30
Start date	20 October 2023
Primary completion	13 June 2024
Estimated completion	10 July 2024
Sites	1 location across Turkey (Türkiye)

Drugs / interventions tested

• graded motor imagery
• traditional physiotherapy method

Conditions studied

• Chronic Pain — all drugs for Chronic Pain →
• Shoulder Pain — all drugs for Shoulder Pain →

Sponsor

Nuray Alaca

Who can join

Adults 20 to 65, any sex, with Chronic Pain or Shoulder Pain. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Graded motor imagery (GMI) clinical conditions accompanied by many pain and movement problems; It is a treatment, education and rehabilitation process that is based on recently obtained scientific data and current clinical studies, is individually adapted and approaches the individual holistically with a biopsychosocial model. Nowadays, it is frequently used in the treatment of some neurological diseases. In addition, these approaches are also used in the treatment of some orthopedic diseases including chronic pain. There are a limited number of studies in which the mentioned approaches are used together in stages, and the stages are mostly used alone. Despite these positive results in favor of GMI, the fact that there is no study using the entire GMI treatment in chronic shoulder pain shows us that a randomized controlled and blinded study with high evidence value should be conducted on this subject. In addition, determining the effect of GMI on changes such as fear of pain, two-point discrimination, and left/right lateralization speed and accuracy task will help fill the literature gaps on this subject. In the light of this information, the question of planned master's thesis study is the effect of GMI treatment applied in addition to traditional physiotherapy in chronic rotator cuff-related shoulder pain on pain level, joint range of motion, functionality, pain-related fear, two-point discrimination and left/right lateralization speed and accuracy compared to only traditional physiotherapy. whether it is superior or not.

Publications & conference data

1 peer-reviewed publication reference this trial (live from Europe PMC):

1. Graded motor imagery as an adjunct to comprehensive physiotherapy in chronic rotator cuff-related pain: a single blind randomized controlled trial.
   Sırlan S, Alaca N, Yarar HA, Başcı O. · · 2025 · PMID 40611093 · DOI 10.1186/s12891-025-08783-w