EFFECT OF ALGOMETRIC PRESSURE RELEASE VERSUS POST ISOMETRIC RELAXATION ON MYOFASCIAL TRIGGER POINTS OF UPPER TRAPEZIUS

Kafr Elsheikh University0 个研究点目标入组 60 人开始时间: 2022年5月15日最近更新: 2023年5月29日

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•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.

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Kafr Elsheikh University