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Functional Massage of Teres Major Muscle

NCT02374073 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 58

Last updated 2015-02-27

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Summary

Purpose: Subacromial impingement syndrome is the most common shoulder condition. Myofascial trigger points in teres major muscle can be associated with this syndrome. The investigators objective is to find out if adding manual therapy specifically for teres major trigger points can produce better results in these patients.

Method: A randomized controlled pilot study was carried out. Fifty people were randomly assigned to one of two groups: intervention group or control group. Both groups received a protocolized physical therapy treatment while the intervention group additionally received manual therapy for teres major trigger points.

Conditions

  • Subacromial Impingement Syndrome
  • Trigger Points

Interventions

OTHER

Functional Massage

The functional massage is a manual therapy technique, indicated in cases of painful muscle tightness that combines a rhythmical and non painful passive joint mobilization in the direction of muscle stretching together with compression/decompression of the muscle to be treated.

OTHER

Protocolized physiotherapy

therapeutic exercises, analgesic electrotherapy and cryotherapy

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Fundacio d'Investigacio en Atencio Primaria Jordi Gol i Gurina

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-01-31
Primary Completion
2014-03-31
Completion
2014-03-31

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