Mirror Therapy for Impingement Syndrome

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Mirror Movements 2; Impingement Syndrome
• Interventions: Other: conventional physiotherapy; Other: mirror therapy

• Registration Number: NCT05188157
• Lead Sponsor: Kutahya Health Sciences University

Brief Summary

Background: Mirror therapy is an adjuvant treatment option based on shoulder impingement Syndrome Objective:To investigate the effect of mirror theraphy on shoulder impingement Syndrome Methods: The study included 62 participants, including cases in the intervention group (IG) (± years) and 20 cases in the control group (CG) (years) who met the selection criteria. IG received mirror theraphy with regular physiotherapy while CG received only regular physiotherapy. The patients were evaluated with the before treatment, immediately after treatment (post-treatment).

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2021-12
• Study First Submitted: 2021-12-27
• Study First Submitted QC: 2021-12-27
• Study First Posted: 2022-01-12
• Study Start: 2022-01-14
• Primary Completion: 2022-02-15
• Study Completion: 2022-03-01
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-05-30
• Last Update Posted: 2022-06-01

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 62

Inclusion Criteria

• Being aged 18-75 years
• Being diagnosed with shoulder impingement syndrome

Exclusion Criteria

• Being uncooperative
• Having an additional systemic disease
• Having uncontrolled hypertension
• Presence of heart failure
• Having hearing or vision problems
• Having a balance disorder
• Diagnosis of heart disease and lung disease so advanced that exercise is contraindicated
• History of shoulder surgery
• Have any pathology that may cause referred pain (eg, cervical radiculopathy)
• Shoulder trauma, previous humeral fracture history
• Steroid injection to the shoulder joint or subacromial bursa in the last 6 months

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
control group	conventional physiotherapy	conventional physiotherapy
mirror therapy group	conventional physiotherapy	conventional physiotherapy and mirror therapy
mirror therapy group	mirror therapy	conventional physiotherapy and mirror therapy

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Jobe Test	5 minutes	lesions of the infraspinatus muscle
goniometer	10 minutes	shoulder range of motion and will be measured
Constant Murley Score	10 minutes	functional level of the patients' shoulder joint, higher scores mean a better outcome.
Tampa Kinesiophobia Scale	10 minutes	will be used to evaluate kinesiophobia, higher scores mean worse outcome.
Hawkins test	5 minutes	impingement tests; forced internal rotation was performed while the arm and elbow were in 90° flexion
Neer test	5 minutes	subacromial impingement test

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Kutahya Health Science University; 🇹🇷 Kutahya, Turkey