NCT01888016

Effectiveness of Fascial Manipulation in Rotator's Cuff Surgery Patients

Effectiveness of Fascial Manipulation in Early Rehabilitation Treatment of Rotator's Cuff Surgery Patients. A Randomized Trial.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose is to evaluate the effectiveness of fascial manipulation treatment in terms to reduce pain and improve physical functionality after rotator's cuff surgery. The technique involves deep friction manipulation of fascia's specific spots. Distant from surgical site.

Detailed description

To evaluate the effectiveness of fascial manipulation treatment associated with standard physiotherapies treatment in rotator's cuff surgery patients, we'll randomize about 60 patients for arm's of study. Both arm's will receive 10 standard physiotherapies treatments in 2 weeks while the experimental arm will receive 3 manual intervention on deep fascial tissues, according to fascial manipulation technique, providing a specific motor and manual assessment, and a deep manual intervention over specific fascial alteration. To evaluate the effectiveness of fascial manipulation treatment we'll use 2 type of outcome measure and we will compare the result of both arms of study.

Conditions

• Cuff Rotator Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	fascial manipulation	• 3 manual intervention on deep fascial tissues, according to fascial manipulation technique, providing a specific motor and manual assessment, and a deep manual intervention over specific fascial alteration.
OTHER	standard physiotherapies treatment	10 standard treatments in 2 weeks * Deltoid and infraspinatus muscles electrotherapy * Chair for passive continue mobilization at allowed range of motion (ROM). ½ h per day * Scar massage * Upper limb, cervical spine and scapula massages * Passive and assisted/active shoulder mobilization exercises * Scapula micro-mobilizations * Gleno-humeral decoaptation * Elbow, wrist and hand active mobilization * Proprioceptive exercise with and without the aid of the mirror

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-06-01
• Primary completion: 2015-05-01
• Completion: 2015-06-01
• First posted: 2013-06-27
• Last updated: 2015-11-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy