Effectiveness of the thoracic diaphragm stretching technique in shoulder pain.
- Conditions
- Shoulder painPhysical Medicine / Rehabilitation - Physiotherapy
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12612000008820
- Lead Sponsor
- Jorge Rodriguez Jimenez
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 60
Subjects from 18 to 70 years. Both male and female.
-Pain during movement and lack of mobility in one or both of the shoulders.
-Voluntary participation.
-Signature of informed consent.
-Not fulfilling any of the exclusion criteria.
-Subjects under 18 and over 70 years.
-Patient situations with contraindications to intervention: neurological pathologies (paraplegia, tetraplegia, Parkinson's Disease, Alzheimer's Disease...), rheumatic diseases, fever, upper limb and rib fracture in recovery phase, tumoral process whether in trunk or in an upper limb, aortic aneurysm, radicular cervicobrachial pain.
-Subjects who are unable to bear the technique due to hypersensitivity in the abdominal region.
-Subjects who are unable to maintain the posture in order to execute the evaluation or the intervention.
-Subjects who have received osteopathic treatment in the last 3 weeks.
-Subjects who have received analgesics or anti-inflamatory drugs in the last 12 hours.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pain reduction in active movement. Measured by VAS.[Measurement before and after intervention.];Increase of active mobility. Measured by goniometry.[Measurement before and after intervention.];Increase of pain threshold by pressing the following trigger points: medial supraspinatus, upper medial infraspinatus and central levator escapula. Measured by algometry.[Measurement before and after intervention.]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Medical diagnosis.[Before intervention.]