NCT04782349

Mulligan Mobilization With Laser for Shoulder Adhesive Capsulitis

Additive Effect of Mulligan Mobilization With Low Level Laser Therapy for Treatment of Patients With Shoulder Adhesive Capsulitis: Double Blinded, Randomized Controlled Trial.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 36 (actual)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder) is a condition of uncertain etiology characterized by pain and progressive loss of both active and passive shoulder motion. Shoulder pain and stiffness are accompanied by disability. It is thought that the incidence is 3 to 5% in the general population. Laser therapy is widely used for treating different musculoskeletal diseases, because of its ability to reduce pain and improve the physical function. Also, MWM when used for shoulders with limited range of motion because of pain had shown improvement in range of motion and pressure pain threshold. Previous studies have investigated the efficacy of combining different manual technique with LLLT for treating pain in some body parts. However, up till now the combined effect of MWM with LLLT for treatment of patients with shoulder adhesive capsulitis have not been investigated. So, the present randomized controlled study will be conducted to investigate the effect of adding mulligan mobilization with movement to low level laser therapy in treatment of patients with shoulder adhesive capsulitis.

Conditions

• Shoulder Adhesive Capsulitis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	mulligan mobilization with low level laser therapy and traditional physical therapy exercises	for mulligan mobilization: for improving the limited range of motion of shoulder joint, the therapist will apply posterolateral mobilization for the shoulder joint. Three sets of painless glides of 10 repetitions will be applied with a rest interval of 30 s between each set. For low level laser application: Laser specifications is as follows: 850 nm wave length and pulsed application with 8 W applied for 20 minutes. laser will be applied over painful points of the shoulder. For traditional physical therapy exercises: the patients will receive the following exercise program: self stretching exercises for shoulder joint, pully exercises, back climbing exercises, finger ladder exercises, circumduction exercises and pendulum exercises
OTHER	low level laser therapy and traditional physical therapy exercises	patients in this group will receive low level laser and traditional physical exercises as described before for group (A)
OTHER	physical therapy exercises	The patients will receive traditional physical therapy exercises only as described before for group (A)

Timeline

• Start date: 2021-12-15
• Primary completion: 2022-07-25
• Completion: 2022-08-15
• First posted: 2021-03-04
• Last updated: 2023-01-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt