Development of a single-session physiotherapy and self-management intervention for the treatment of primary traumatic anterior shoulder dislocation for the 'Acute Rehabilitation following Traumatic anterior shoulder dISlocAtioN (ARTISAN)' multi centre RCT.
ZiHeng Liew, Bruno Mazuquin, David R Ellard, Eleni Karasouli, Stephen Drew, Chetan Modi, Howard Bush, Martin Underwood, Rebecca S Kearney
PMID 34607077WHAT IT FOUND
No outcomes are reported.
This paper describes how a single-session physiotherapy and self-management package was designed for people after a first traumatic anterior shoulder dislocation, and it is this package that the ongoing ARTISAN trial is testing.
What this paper is
This is the intervention design paper for the ARTISAN trial. It describes how a single session of physiotherapy plus self-management materials (booklets and a website covering advice, phased range of movement and strengthening exercises, goal setting and an exercise log) was developed for adults after a first traumatic anterior shoulder dislocation, using clinical guidelines, a review of the literature, a survey of 43 NHS sites and patient focus groups. It reports no patient outcomes. The trial's results are still to come, so there is no finding here that should change your practice.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read this as evidence that one session of physiotherapy with self-management materials works as well as a course of usual physiotherapy. No outcomes are reported anywhere in the paper. It only describes how the single-session intervention was built and how it is being delivered in a trial that is still recruiting.
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