SUPPORT
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Funder name / reference number: | National Institute for Health Research: Research for Patient Benefit Programme (Grant reference PB-PG-1207-15064) |
UKCRN Study portfolio: | ISRCTN42399123 |
Year | 2010-2013 |
Study design
The SUPPORT Trial randomised controlled trial.
Participants were recruited through musculoskeletal interface clinics from within Stoke-on-Trent and South Staffordshire. The trial also provided long-term follow-up data on clinical and cost-effectiveness.
Primary objective
To investigate the clinical and cost-effectiveness of exercise and injection for Subacromial Impingement Syndrome (SIS).
Interventions
Patients randomised to one of four treatment groups, namely:-
1) Ultrasound-guided corticosteroid injection, with physiotherapist-led individualised, supervised and progressed exercise;
2) Ultrasound-guided corticosteroid injection, with an advice and exercise leaflet;
3) Unguided (blind) corticosteroid injection, with physiotherapist-led individualised, supervised and progressed exercise; or
4) Unguided (blind) corticosteroid injection, with an advice and exercise leaflet.