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Effect of Graded Motor Imagery on Shoulder Dysfunction Post Mastectomy

NCT07240129 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 54

Last updated 2025-11-20

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Summary

One of the most common complications after breast cancer surgery is a functional limitation of the upper body. Up to 67% of breast cancer patients experience arm or shoulder impairment, including pain, numbness, loss of strength, and reduced ROM, after surgery.

Graded motor imagery is effective in reducing pain interference with function using a graded sequence of strategies including left/right judgements (implicit motor imagery), imagined movements (explicit motor imagery) and mirror therapy.

Conditions

  • Shoulder Dysfunction

Interventions

OTHER

Graded Motor Imagery (GMI)

1. Left/right judgements: It includes left/right judgments of photographs that depict the affected area. 2. Imagined movements: Movement visualizations will be performed. 3. Mirror therapy: It includes observation of the movements of unaffected body part in the mirror, 2 times / week for 6 weeks.

OTHER

Physical therapy program

It will include exercise like codman's pendulum exercises in flexion-extension, abduction-adduction, and circular motion, active assisted ROM exercises with a wand, capsular stretching, wall ladder, and shoulder wheel exercises, 2 times / week for 6 weeks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Cairo University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Asmaa Abdallah, PhD · Teaching assistant of physical therapy for surgery, cairo university, egypt

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
35 Years
Max Age
55 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-04-30
Primary Completion
2026-04-30
Completion
2026-04-30

Countries

  • Egypt

Study Locations

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