Clinical Trial: High-frequency Short-course Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy for Partial Rotator Cuff Tears: Study Protocol for a Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled Trial

U.S., June 30 -- ClinicalTrials.gov registry received information related to the study (NCT07673055) titled 'High-frequency Short-course Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy for Partial Rotator Cuff Tears: Study Protocol for a Multicenter, Randomized, Controlled Trial' on June 22.

Brief Summary: This is a multicenter, randomized controlled clinical study exploring three different extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) regimens for patients with partial rotator cuff tears, a common cause of chronic shoulder pain and limited movement. Traditional ESWT uses a once-weekly treatment schedule over 7 weeks, which takes a long time and leads to low patient compliance. This study aims to test two new high-frequency, short-course ESWT protocols, comp...