NCT03041727

Physiotherapist Approach to Shoulder's Diseases, Differences Between Fascial Manipulation and Standard Exercises

Physiotherapist Approach to Shoulder's Diseases, Differences Between Fascial Manipulation and Standard Exercise

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 70 (actual)
• Sponsor: Azienda Ospedaliera Bolognini di Seriate Bergamo · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The study purpose is to compare the effects of Fascial Manipulation added to standard exercises protocol versus the simple exercises protocol.

Detailed description

The shoulder degenerative diseases are recurring in hospital employees. The early approach, as we see in literature, has high probability to reduce the pain and the disfunction in the long term. In particular stretching and strengthening exercises are the standard protocol applied. The Fascial Manipulation is a manual therapy that works on the connective tissue, by increasing mobility and reducing pain. We have added the Fascial Manipulation to prove if it make a faster recovery and a pain reduction in the short and the middle term.

Conditions

• Shoulder Pain
• Manual Therapy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Fascial Manipulation	Fascial Manipulation is a manual therapy that focused on deep muscular fascial.
OTHER	Standard exercises protocol	Stretching and strengthening exercises

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-02-01
• Primary completion: 2021-08-01
• Completion: 2021-08-01
• First posted: 2017-02-03
• Last updated: 2022-02-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Italy