ArticleJSES international2026
Long-term shoulder-related secondary health-care contact among people with subacromial pain: a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial of home-based vs. supervised exercise regimens.
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Background: Subacromial pain is associated with substantial individual burden and health-care costs. Exercise rehabilitation can be delivered either at home or under physiotherapist supervision. This study investigated whether home-based exercise rehabilitation was associated with increased long-term secondary health-care utilization compared with supervised exercise rehabilitation. Methods: A total of 208 participants were randomized to home-based, group-based, or individually supervised exercise rehabilitation. For this secondary analysis, the 2 supervised groups were pooled and compared with the home-based group. The outcomes were shoulder-related secondary health-care contacts and shoulder surgery during the 5-year follow-up. Associations were analyzed using logistic regression and reported as adjusted odds ratios (ORs) with 95% confidence intervals (CIs). Results: During the 5-year follow-up, 22/71 participants (31%) in the home-based group and 45/137 (33%) in the supervised group had a shoulder-related secondary health-care contact (adjusted OR 0.91; 95% CI 0.52-1.61). Shoulder surgery was recorded in 14/71 participants (20%) in the home-based group and 24/137 (18%) in the supervised group (adjusted OR 1.16; 95% CI 0.42-3.22). Conclusion: In this 5-year register-based follow-up of a randomized controlled trial, we found no evidence of increased shoulder-related secondary health-care contacts or surgery following home-based compared with supervised exercise rehabilitation for subacromial pain. However, the estimates were imprecise and should be interpreted with caution. These findings support home-based exercise as a potentially scalable rehabilitation strategy, although larger studies are needed to confirm long-term health-care utilization outcomes.
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