NCT02735967

The Use of Diadynamic in Association With a Manual Therapy Program for Patients With Impingement Syndrome

The Use of Diadynamic in Association With a Manual Therapy Program for Patients With Impingement Syndrome: a Randomized Blind Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Nove de Julho · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 59 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this study will be to evaluate the effects of the use of manual therapy and diadynamic in muscle trigger points in the upper trapezius muscle in individuals diagnosed with shoulder impingement syndrome, unilateral shoulder as functional capacity, pain intensity and pain threshold the pressure.

Conditions

• Shoulder Impingement Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	manual therapy	the positional release techniques will be performed while maintaining this position for 90 seconds procedure is repeated 3 times. Then, the therapist performs the ischemic compression technique on the myofascial trigger point, the compression is maintained for 90 seconds by 3 replications.
DEVICE	diadynamic current	Through an electrotherapy device were applied diadynamic in that myofascial trigger point previously marked. 4 minutes from the fixed two-phase mode will be applied (DF), 4 minutes long periods (LP) and 4 minute short periods (CP), the first and second intensely in the sensitive line and the third motor threshold, both supportable according to each patient.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-03-01
• Primary completion: 2016-04-01
• Completion: 2016-06-01
• First posted: 2016-04-13
• Last updated: 2016-07-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil