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Post-operative rehabilitation using a digital healthcare system in patients who had undergone rotator cuff repair: protocol for a single-center randomized controlled trial.
Article in Trials, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04511377 (New Model of Short-term Rehabilitation Exercise Training Using Digital Healthcare System in Patients With Rotator Cuff Repair; Randomized Controlled Study), which is not on this map. Cited by 6 papers.
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New Model of Short-term Rehabilitation Exercise Training Using Digital Healthcare System in Patients With Rotator Cuff Repair; Randomized Controlled Study
Who cites it
6 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.
- Digital Therapeutics for Postoperative Rehabilitation after Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair: A Single-Center, Assessor-Blinded, Randomized Pilot Study.Clinics in orthopedic surgery · 2026Trial
- Current Evidence, Challenges, Opportunities, and Future Directions of Rotator Cuff Failure: A Systematic Review.Cureus · 2026Review
- Digital and virtual reality-based rehabilitation versus conventional therapy for rotator cuff tears and post-repair recovery: a systematic review and meta-analysis.JSES reviews, reports, and techniques · 2026Review
- Mobile-Based Digital Rehabilitation Program for Patients After Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion: Prospective Cohort Study.JMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologies · 2025Article
- Performance Evaluation of an Immersive Virtual Reality Application for Rehabilitation after Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair.Bioengineering (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- A randomized controlled trial of postoperative rehabilitation using digital healthcare system after rotator cuff repair.NPJ digital medicine · 2023Article
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4 authors at 4 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundOperative repair of a rotator cuff tear requires up to 12 weeks of post-operative (post-op) home-based rehabilitation. Maintaining patients' compliance in the post-op rehabilitation program is a pivotal component for generating successful outcomes. By developing a post-op rehabilitation-oriented digital healthcare system and applying it in patients who had undergone rotator cuff repair, we aim to increase the efficacy of the rehabilitation program and raise patients' compliance levels. Here, we present a protocol developed for comparing the efficacy of rehabilitation using a newly developed augmented reality (AR)-based digital healthcare system with that of conventional rehabilitation for post-op rehabilitation of rotator cuff repair.
methodsThis study will recruit a total of 115 patients who had undergone rotator cuff repair within 3 days after surgery. Patients will be randomly allocated to rehabilitation using an AR-based digital healthcare system (digital group) or conventional rehabilitation (conventional group). Patients in both groups will perform brochure-based exercises from the immediate post-op period to post-op 6 weeks. From post-op 6 weeks to 12 weeks, patients in the digital group will use the AR-based system for post-op exercises, whereas patients in the conventional group will continue brochure-based rehabilitation exercises. The primary outcome will be scores on the Simple Shoulder Test at post-op 12 weeks. Secondary outcomes include numeric rating scale scores for pain, measures of range of motion and muscle strength of the affected shoulder, grip strength of the affected arm, scores on the Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder and Hand test, the Shoulder Pain and Disability Index, and the EuroQoL-5D-5L quality-of-life measure. Analyses will be conducted using an intention-to-treat approach. DISCUSSION: This study will examine the effectiveness of an AR-based digital healthcare system for post-op rehabilitation in the patients after rotator cuff repair. The study will add evidence for the application of digital healthcare systems in post-op rehabilitation.
trial registrationClinicalTrials.gov NCT04511377. Registered on 10 August 2020.
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