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Comparison of an Artificial Intelligence-Assisted Rehabilitation Program for Shoulder Musculoskeletal Disorders and the Clinical Decision Making of Therapists

An observational study in Shoulder Musculoskeletal Disorders, Rehabilitation Programs and Machine Learning, sponsored by Taipei Medical University Shuang Ho Hospital. Status unknown at 1 site in Taiwan. Open to participants aged 20 Years to 80 Years. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-05-15.

Sponsored by Taipei Medical University Shuang Ho Hospital · Observational

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Study type
Observational
Model
Other
Time perspective
Other
Enrollment
80
Ages
20 Years to 80 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

People with shoulder musculoskeletal disorders among middle-aged and older adults have the highest need of rehabilitation services. The population growth and aging society subsequently increase the number of disabled people, the healthcare costs and the needs for healthcare professionals. The evidence exists to support the beneficial effect of exercises on function and quality of life. Traditionally, a rehabilitation program is designed by therapists for each patient depending on their conditions. In recent years, AI is increasingly being employed in the field of physical and rehabilitation medicine, however, there is no study of applying AI in predicting rehabilitation programs for shoulder musculoskeletal disorders. The main purpose of this study is to explore the possibilities of using supervised machine learning approach to predict rehabilitation programs for shoulder musculoskeletal disorders. Twenty-three features are identified based on shoulder range of motion, pain, whether or not perform surgical procedure. Each exercise is considered as a label with a total of twenty-five exercises. Dataset is collected by clinical therapists to develop and train the model. Each patient has to receive at least two months of rehabilitation and two times of evaluation. Logistic regression, support vector machine and random forest are used to build the computational model. Accuracy, precision, recall, F-1 score and AUC are used to evaluate the performance of the computational model in machine learning. After training, we compare the consistency of rehabilitation programs predicted by using machine learning model and the clinical decision making of therapists.

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Conditions studied

  • Shoulder Musculoskeletal Disorders
  • Rehabilitation Programs
  • Machine Learning
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In context

Musculoskeletal Diseases

657 studies on the registry are indexed under Musculoskeletal Diseases; 160 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 80 is below the median of 126 across 201 observational studies indexed under Musculoskeletal Diseases.

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Lead sponsor

Taipei Medical University Shuang Ho Hospital is the lead sponsor of 100 studies on the registry; 18 are open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
20 Years to 80 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No
Sampling method
Non-probability sample

Study population

Musculoskeletal disorders that commonly cause shoulder pain in the clinic include Adhesive Capsulitis of shoulder (AC or frozen shoulder), Rotator Cuff Tear or Rupture (RCT), and Shoulder Impingement Syndrome (SIS). The incidence of AC in the general population is approximately 2-5%, most commonly occurring in women aged 40-60 years; the incidence of RCT is 20.7% and increases with age, most commonly associated with SIS is the most frequent cause of shoulder pain, accounting for about 44-65% of cases, usually affecting people over the age of 40.

Inclusion criteria

  1. The International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision (ICD-10) codes were selected before the study started and included the ICD-10 codes M75 (Shoulder lesions), S42 (Fracture of shoulder and upper arm), S43 (Dislocation and sprain of joints and ligaments of shoulder girdle), and S46 (Injury of muscle, fascia and tendon at shoulder and upper arm level)
  2. Patients who need rehabilitation after undergoing surgical procedure and are able to perform stretch, active assistive range of motion (AAROM) or supervised active range of motion (AROM)
  3. between 20-80 years old
  4. Are able to follow motor commands

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Patients with central and peripheral nervous system disease, such as cerebrovascular accident (CVA), Parkinson's disease (PD), myasthenia gravis (MG), poliomyelitis
  2. Patients who had shoulder contusion, vascular injury, severe crush injury and amputation
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Study design

Observational model
Other
Time perspective
Other
Enrollment
80 participants (estimated)
Patient registry
No

Groups and cohorts

  • shoulder musculoskeletal group

    The International Classification of Diseases, 10th revision (ICD-10) codes were selected before the study started and included the ICD-10 codes M75 (Shoulder lesions), S42 (Fracture of shoulder and upper arm), S43 (Dislocation and sprain of joints and ligaments of shoulder girdle), and S46 (Injury of muscle, fascia and tendon at shoulder and upper arm level)

    Other: usual care

Interventions

  • Otherusual care

    usual care(rehabilitation program)

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Accuracy

    To explore the possibilities of using supervised machine learning approach to predict rehabilitation programs for shoulder musculoskeletal disorders

    Time frame: Change from Baseline at 2 months

  2. Precision

    To explore the possibilities of using supervised machine learning approach to predict rehabilitation programs for shoulder musculoskeletal disorders

    Time frame: Change from Baseline at 2 months

  3. Recall

    To explore the possibilities of using supervised machine learning approach to predict rehabilitation programs for shoulder musculoskeletal disorders

    Time frame: Change from Baseline at 2 months

  4. F-1 score

    To explore the possibilities of using supervised machine learning approach to predict rehabilitation programs for shoulder musculoskeletal disorders

    Time frame: Change from Baseline at 2 months

  5. AUC

    To explore the possibilities of using supervised machine learning approach to predict rehabilitation programs for shoulder musculoskeletal disorders

    Time frame: Change from Baseline at 2 months

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Study locations

1 of 1 sites recruiting
  • Shuang Ho Hospital
    New Taipei City, 235, Taiwan
    Recruiting
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References and documents

Publications

  • Burns DM, Leung N, Hardisty M, Whyne CM, Henry P, McLachlin S. Shoulder physiotherapy exercise recognition: machine learning the inertial signals from a smartwatch. Physiol Meas. 2018 Jul 23;39(7):075007. doi: 10.1088/1361-6579/aacfd9. PubMed 29952759 ↗
  • Challoumas D, Biddle M, McLean M, Millar NL. Comparison of Treatments for Frozen Shoulder: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis. JAMA Netw Open. 2020 Dec 1;3(12):e2029581. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.29581. PubMed 33326025 ↗
  • Linsell L, Dawson J, Zondervan K, Rose P, Randall T, Fitzpatrick R, Carr A. Prevalence and incidence of adults consulting for shoulder conditions in UK primary care; patterns of diagnosis and referral. Rheumatology (Oxford). 2006 Feb;45(2):215-21. doi: 10.1093/rheumatology/kei139. Epub 2005 Nov 1. PubMed 16263781 ↗
  • Oude Nijeweme-d'Hollosy W, van Velsen L, Poel M, Groothuis-Oudshoorn CGM, Soer R, Hermens H. Evaluation of three machine learning models for self-referral decision support on low back pain in primary care. Int J Med Inform. 2018 Feb;110:31-41. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2017.11.010. Epub 2017 Nov 23. PubMed 29331253 ↗
  • Gupta R, Srivastava D, Sahu M, Tiwari S, Ambasta RK, Kumar P. Artificial intelligence to deep learning: machine intelligence approach for drug discovery. Mol Divers. 2021 Aug;25(3):1315-1360. doi: 10.1007/s11030-021-10217-3. Epub 2021 Apr 12. PubMed 33844136 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on May 15, 2023, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT05858892
Lead sponsor
Taipei Medical University Shuang Ho Hospital
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
May 15, 2023
Start date
Jul 11, 2022
Primary completion
Apr 30, 2024 (estimated)
Completion
Apr 30, 2024 (estimated)
Last update
May 15, 2023

Study contacts

Hanyun Hsiao, master
Contact
10252@s.tmu.edu.tw
+88622490088 ext. 1624

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
No
FDA-regulated device
No
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