American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Society standardized shoulder assessment form for the evalu- ation of physical ability in daily-living tasks; a visual analogue scale for pain assessment at rest and during movements; Likert score for the estimation of partici- pant satisfaction.
Endpoints: before treatment, end of treatment, 12 and 24 weeks after the completion of each intervention for all outcome measures, except for the Likert score that was evaluated only at the end of treatment. Follow-up: 24 weeks.
Results.
At the end of treatment and at follow-up, both treatment groups experienced improvements in all outcomes measures relative to baseline values, except for the visual analogue scale at rest that was unaf- fected by traditional therapeutic exercise. For all out-