EFFECT OF ALGOMETRIC PRESSURE RELEASE VERSUS POST ISOMETRIC RELAXATION ON MYOFASCIAL TRIGGER POINTS OF UPPER TRAPEZIUS
- Conditions
- Musculoskeletal Diseases
- Registration Number
- PACTR202209502771025
- Lead Sponsor
- Kafr Elsheikh University
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 60
•Age ranged from 18-30 years (Kashyap et al. 2018). .
•Both gender will be included.
•Patients with body mass index 18.5 – 25 kg/m2
•Patients have forward head posture.
•All patients complain of local pain in upper trapezius.
•The presence of MTrPs will be diagnosed based on the presence of at least two essential criteria and at least one of the confirmatory manual examination criteria proposed by Simons et al. (1999).
•Essential Criteria; Palpable taut band, spot tenderness of a nodule in a taut band, Pain pattern recognition by the patient, Painful limitation of full stretch ROM and EMG spontaneous activities.
•Confirmatory Criteria; Visual or tactile identification of local twitch response (LTR), Visualization of an LTR induced by a needle, Pain or altered sensation [in the expected MTrP distribution] with pressure.
•Fibromyalgia and other systemic rheumatic conditions. History of a whiplash injury (Okhovatian et al. 2012).
•Other musculoskeletal diseases or comorbidities such as: cervical trauma or surgeries, cervical spondylosis, spondyliosthesis with radiculopathy (Fernández-de-las-Peñas et al. 2006).
•Long-term steroid use, or administration of anti-inflammatory analgesics over the preceding 24 hours (Kostopoulos et al. 2008; Montañez-Aguilera et al. 2010).
•Previous MTrPs therapy over the preceding 3 months (Ruiz-Sáez et al.2007).
The main materials and methods that used in the current study were classified into two main categories Evaluation and Therapeutic materials and methods.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method •VAS will be used to measure the pain severity level.<br>•Algometer will be used to measure the pain pressure threshold.<br>• Cervical range of motion (CROM) will be used to measure side bending on both sides, rotation and forward head.<br>•Surface electromyography (EMG) will be used to measure the root mean square (RMS) value.<br>
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Arabic version of NDI will be used to assess self-rated disability in patients with neck pain.<br>