A COMPARSION BETWEEN DIFFERENT MODES OF REAL-TIME SONOELASTOGRAPHY IN VISUALIZING MYOFASCIAL TRIGGER POINTS IN LOW BACK MUSCLES
- Conditions
- Musculoskeletal DiseasesMyofasical trigger points
- Registration Number
- PACTR201402000761317
- Lead Sponsor
- Faculty of Physical Therapy, Cairo University
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 50
To be included in the study, the subjects with Active-MTrPs must have experienced low back pain consistently over the past 3 months prior to the investigation and did not receive any physical therapy for at least 3 months. The cause of the back pain was diagnosed by an orthopedic physician to be low back dysfunction.
Subjects with Latent-MTrPs were pain-free subjects (they had no low back pain over the past 3 months), however they were referred for treatment for other conditions as cervical pain and tennis elbow.
Normal (20-24.9) and overweight (25-29.9) body mass index subjects were included in the study.
active rheumatoid arthritis
fractures and structural deformities of trunk, hip, knee and ankle joints
neurological symptoms
disc prolapse
previous spinal surgery
pregnancy
body mass index of class II to III.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Vibration sonoelastography tissue strain ;2-Dimensional grey scale ultrasound to assess echogenicity of myofascial trigger points
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Vibration sonoelastography colored image