Effect of Ultrasound Therapy and Static Muscle Contraction with Stretching Exercises 0n Taut Band of Muscle Fibers Around Neck
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: M00-M99- Diseases of the musculoskeletal system and connective tissue
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2023/03/050505
- Lead Sponsor
- G D GOENKA UNIVERSITY
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Open to Recruitment
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 0
1. Experiencing neck pain for more than three months, and having at least one latent MTrP in the upper trapezius muscle.
2. Patients with neck pain that increases with movements against resistance and with negative history of fracture & dislocation.
3. Local twitch response provoked by the snapping palpation of the taut band.
4. Reproduction of the typically referred pain pattern of the MTrPs in response to compression.
1. Red flags are serious diseases (i.e. systemic, infectious, neoplastics, fractures, dislocation)
2. Specific shoulder pain indicates that symptoms could refer to a pathology that has a clear structural, patho-anatomic or patho-physiologic origin.
3. Younger than 18 years old, unable to understand English or Hindi and positive case history for traumatic shoulder pathology and for cognitive impairments.
4. Diagnosis of cervical radiculopathy or myelopathy determined by their primary care physician.
5. Having undergone myofascial pain therapy within the past month before the study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1.Pain <br/ ><br>2.Pressure Pain threshold <br/ ><br>3.Range of motion of cervical spine <br/ ><br>Timepoint: BASELINE <br/ ><br>DAY 5 <br/ ><br>DAY 11 <br/ ><br>DAY 41
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 4.Neck Pain Disability Index <br/ ><br>5.Sleep Quality <br/ ><br>Timepoint: BASELINE <br/ ><br>DAY 5 <br/ ><br>DAY 11 <br/ ><br>DAY 41