NIH R01 · 2025
Predicting the Outcome of Exercise Therapy for Treatment of Rotator Cuff Tears
Project Summary Rotator cuff tears are a significant clinical problem, resulting in 30% of all visits to orthopaedic surgeons and over 150,000 surgical procedures per year. Rotator cuff tears occur frequently in the middle-to-late aged population and can cause severe pain, disability and activity limitations. Exercise therapy is typically prescribed for initial treatment of rotator cuff tears and is often effective at relieving symptoms. However, exercise therapy fails to relieve symptoms in 25-50% of cases, requiring surgical intervention. Thus, we conducted a prospective observational cohort study of 109 individuals with a symptomatic isolated supraspinatus tendon tear who underwent a…
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