Effectiveness of Manual Myofascial Release Versus Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization (IASTM) in Patients With Chronic Neck Pain"

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Chronic Neck Pain
• Interventions: Procedure: Manual Myofascial Release; Procedure: Instrument Assisted Soft tissue Mobilization

• Registration Number: NCT05502406
• Lead Sponsor: Foundation University Islamabad

Brief Summary

Neck pain has a global prevalence of 30%, being the fourth leading cause of disability among general population and is more prevalent among females than males, as per concluded by evidence. It is undoubtedly the need of time, to address its proper treatment and to hinder its recurrence amongst the general population. The current physical therapy management of neck pain is more focused towards achieving the short term goals for the patient rather than addressing and amending the actual cause of its relapse. Manual Myofascial Release is one of the very effective treatment used to release soft tissue and fascial adhesions over the myofascia inorder to relieve chronic neck pain. The study aims to compare this manual treatment against Instrument Assisted soft tissue mobilization in order to determine which of the two provides improved outcome in terms of pain, neck disability and cervical Range of motion.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2022-03-01
• Status Verified: 2022-08
• Study First Submitted: 2022-08-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-08-14
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-08-14
• Study First Posted: 2022-08-16
• Last Update Posted: 2022-08-16
• Primary Completion: 2023-01
• Study Completion: 2023-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 40

Inclusion Criteria

• Male and Female participants belonging to the age group of 18 to 40 years
• Participants suffering from neck pain for more than 3months.

Exclusion Criteria

• Recent history of Whiplash Injury.
• Recent traumatic history of head, cervical spine, shoulder girdle or fractures of the cervical spine or shoulder complex.
• History of Cervical Radiculopathy, spondylosis, spondylolisthesis, disc prolapse, any other systemic disease or vascular syndrome such as vertebro-basilar Insufficiency.
• Diagnosed Fibromyalgia, myopathy or myelopathy
• Sensory/Motor dysfunction owing to any neurological pathology in the mid or upper back.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
MMFR	Manual Myofascial Release	The participants of the respective group will recieve manual soft tissue release over the cervicodorsal fascia using velvet glove technique for a period of 5 to 7 mins inorder to set free any adhesion in the underlying myofascia
IASTM	Instrument Assisted Soft tissue Mobilization	The participants of the respective group will receive myofascial release using a C shaped glider, by the help of gentle horizontal strokes the targeted soft tissue restrictions will be relieved over the cervicodorsal fascia

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Pain intensity	2 weeks	Pain will be measured using numeric pain rating scale which is a 10 point scale characterising 0 as no pain and 10 as worst possible pain.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Fauji Foundation Hospital; 🇵🇰 Rawalpindi, Punjab, Pakistan