Using VirtuaCareTM Platform for Home Programs in Acute and Chronic Shoulder Conditions: A Pilot Study

Launched by CEDARS-SINAI MEDICAL CENTER · Aug 23, 2023

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ClinConnect Summary

This clinical trial is exploring whether the VirtuaCare™ platform can help patients stick to their shoulder rehabilitation exercises at home. The study aims to see if using this online program can be a good alternative to traditional physical therapy, while also reducing the number of in-person visits to a clinic. If you're 18 years or older and have been prescribed physical therapy for a shoulder issue, you might be eligible to participate.

Participants will follow a home exercise program designed for their shoulder condition, and physical therapists will help guide them. To join, you should be able to understand English, have no serious neurological conditions, and not have had any major surgeries in the last five years. This study is currently recruiting participants, and being part of it could help improve shoulder care for you and others in the future.

Gender

ALL

Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Physical therapy home program subjects
• • Subject 18 years or older
• • Outpatient physical therapy prescribed by doctor for shoulder rehabilitation.
• • No previous neurological condition
• • Understand English (exercises are only in English) Physical therapists
• • The therapists will be the ones who provide physical therapy treatment to the acute and chronic shoulder population.
• • Patients who had usual and customary treatment for acute and chronic shoulder conditions
• • • Any patient referred based on inclusion criteria noted above that are referred for outpatient physical therapy and had a previous acute or chronic shoulder condition, were 18 years and older and had no previously documented neurological condition.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Physical therapy home program subjects
• • Prior surgery within the last 5 years or less than 6 months between surgery
• • Neurologic comorbidities that have functional deficits
• • Uncontrolled diabetes
• • Diagnosis with active cancer in the last two years
• • Unable to understand English
• • Physical therapists • Any therapist who does not provide physical therapy treatment for acute and chronic shoulder conditions.
• • Patients who had usual and customary treatment for acute and chronic shoulder conditions
• • • Any patient who had prior surgery within the last 5 years or less than 6 months between surgery, had neurological comorbidities that had documented functional deficits, documented uncontrollable diabetes, documented diagnosis of active cancer within the last two years.