The Influence of Eccentric Training on the Volume and Vascularisation of the Rotator Cuff in Patients With Rotator Cuff Tendinopathy and Healthy Subjects

NACompletedINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

60

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

April 30, 2012

Primary Completion Date

April 30, 2015

Study Completion Date

June 30, 2015

Conditions
Rotator Cuff Tendinopathy
Interventions
BEHAVIORAL

Eccentric exercise

Patients and healthy subjects will perform an eccentric exercise during which a weight is lifted along the body and lowered with an extended arm at a slow speed. Weight is determined, based on pain in patients and based on force in healthy subjects.

Trial Locations (1)

9000

University Hospital Ghent, Ghent

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

Fund for Scientific Research, Flanders, Belgium

OTHER

lead

University Ghent

OTHER

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