The Effect of Self-rehabilitation Using Communication APP After Arthroscopic Surgery for Rotator Cuff Tear

For patients with mobile application supportive rehabilitation, patients managed rehabilitation exercise by themselves after the surgery without supervision. Rehabilitation protocol and exercise instruction video were available in the application. Patient could communicate with the physician and therapist via the application.

For patients with therapist supervised rehabilitation, patients attended one-on-one instructions with a therapist (once a week at post-operative 2nd\~12th week and once two weeks at post-operative 13th\~24th week; totally 16 sessions in the 6-month rehabilitation program) and exercised under supervision at hospital. Subjects would receive additional sessions based on the rehabilitation progress. Subjects could cancel scheduled sessions by personal reasons. We provided telephone consultation without APP communication for subjects in the supervised group.