Digital Versus Conventional Physical Therapy for Chronic Shoulder Tendinopathy

"Patients in the digital intervention group will benefit from an 8-week program composed of therapeutic exercise, education and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) program provided by SWORD Health.~Patients in this group will performed home-based rehabilitation sessions using SWORD Phoenix®, under remote monitoring by a physical therapist."

"Patients in this group will benefit from a 8-week program consisting of two 30 min face-to-face physical therapy sessions per week in an outpatient clinic setting, for a total of 16 sessions. The program includes commonly used interventions adapted by the physical therapist to the specific needs of the participant.~In addition to the face-to-face sessions, physical therapists will also be communicating with participants in this group through a secure messaging system (Mychart) used at UCSF or, alternatively, through a telephone check-ins (10-15 min calls, up to twice per week)."