Digital Therapy in Shoulder Rehabilitation.

Effectiveness and Therapeutic Compliance of Digital Therapy in Shoulder Rehabilitation.

Digital therapy may provides real time visual feedbacks. Instrumented devices objectively quantify the patient's performance during rehabilitation and thus could be helpful for the personalization of the exercises.

The interactive ball of this trial allows measuring both movement and pressure applied on it. Therefore, the objectives of this study are: (i) to evaluate whether the use of a novel digital therapy gaming system was therapeutically relevant during shoulder rehabilitation; (ii) to understand whether the device was effective in improving patients' engagement in comparison to a control non-gaming rehabilitation program.

Inclusion Criteria:

• impingement syndrome, capsulitis, tendon injuries, degenerative joint or tendon pathologies
• pain between 2/10 and 8/10 on a visual analogue scale

Exclusion Criteria:

• post-surgical patients
• inability to perform active exercises
• peripheral neurological deficits
• cervical-brachialgia
• algodystrophy