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## Background and purpose: Exercise therapy is a commonly used conservative therapy for long-term subacromial pain. however, there is no consensus regarding what type of exercises and dosage is most effective. the aim of this study was to compare the effect of two exercise programmes: 1) high-dosage (hd) medical exercise therapy versus 2) low-dosage (ld) exercise therapy programme for subjects with long-term subacromial pain. ## Methods: This study used a randomized, controlled clinical trial with an intention-to-treat analysis. sixty-one subjects were randomly assigned by concealment either to an hd medical exercise therapy group (n = 31) or to an ld exercise therapy group (n = 30). pain (visual analogue scale [vas]) and function (shoulder rating questionnaire [srq]) were measured at inclusion, at end of treatment and at 6 and 12 months follow-up. ## Results: There were no differences between groups at inclusion (baseline) regarding any variables. during the three months treatment period, five subjects (8%) dropped out, and another seven (11%) dropped out at one-year follow-up. at the end of treatment, both pain and function had improved significantly in favour of the hd therapy,

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Author

Håvard Østerås; Tom Arild Torstensen; Berit Østerås

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley; Research Square (ISSN 1358-2267)

Published

2010

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)