Efficacy of Myofascial Release in Patients With Axial Spondyloarthritis.

Summary

Axial spondyloarthritis (AS), is a chronic and disabling disease that mainly affects young people, generating clear limitations in mobility and functional capacity in patients who develop this disease. Although pharmacological treatment is the basis of the therapeutic treatment of (AS), non-pharmacological treatment is a fundamental complement that guarantees the optimization of movement patterns, in turn favoring independence in the basic activities of life daily through the management and control of the derived signs and symptoms. Several studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of physiotherapy in treating symptoms in patients with AS, one of these studies is the Cochrane review developed by Dagfinrud et al. One of the techniques described by the Cochrane Review in the management of symptoms is orthopedic manual therapy (OMT), defined as a specialized area of physical therapy used for the treatment of neuro-musculoskeletal conditions, based on clinical reasoning, using approaches highly specific treatment plans that include manual techniques and therapeutic exercises.

Among these manual techniques, it includes myofascial induction as the primary technique of choice for the management of soft tissue and fascial system restrictions, it has been shown to be in rheumatic diseases such as fibromyalgia and osteoarthritis, as well as in non-inflammatory mechanical diseases such as non-specific low back pain, a low-cost, rapid therapeutic action strategy with sustained gains over time in managing global symptoms. Currently, the effects of myofascial induction on the mobility and function of patients with AS are unknown, despite the excellent results that these techniques have shown in dysfunctions of non-autoimmune musculoskeletal origin. For this reason, this study will seek to evaluate the efficacy of myofascial release compared to sham therapy in joint range of motion in patients diagnosed with axial spondyloarthritis.

Conditions

• Ankylosing Spondylitis

Interventions

OTHER

Myofascial release

Myofascial release or induction (IMF) is a widely used manual therapy treatment involving specifically guided, low-load, long-lasting mechanical forces to manipulate the myofascial complex, aimed at restoring optimal length, decreasing pain, and improving function. The experimental group will receive 1 examination session and 6 myofascial induction sessions carried out by a physiotherapist specialized in orthopedic manual therapy, superficial and deep techniques will be applied in the cervical region, for spinal at the level of the lumbar square, sacroiliac region and upper trapezius. 2 sessions per week over the course of 3 weeks.

OTHER

Sham therapy

The control group will receive 1 examination session and 6 simulated myofascial induction sessions, where a physiotherapist will apparently apply the same techniques and maneuvers of myofascial induction, however, they will not follow the basic principles of technique execution, which does a procedure with a placebo effect.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Universidad de la Sabana

  lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

• María Alejandra Sánchez Vera, PT · Universidad de la Sabana

Study Design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

DOUBLE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

70 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2020-12-31

Primary Completion

2021-03-31

Completion

2021-06-30