NCT05814978

Effects of Scapular Therapeutic Exercise on Essential Biomechanical and Neurophysiological Parameters in Shoulder Pain Conditions With Scapular Impairments

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (actual)
• Sponsor: Polytechnic Institute of Porto · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Shoulder pain is a prevalent and recurrent condition. After a period of shoulder pain, some adaptations could be found, as in scapular muscles and kinematics and/or in nervous system. It seems important to assess several biomechanical and neurophysiological outcomes to better characterize shoulder pain conditions and to program an intervention plane. Therapeutic exercise is one of the treatments used for shoulder pain, however there are still doubts and controversial findings regarding exercise focusing the scapular musculature. Thus, the present study aims to assess the effects of an intervention protocol based on scapular therapeutic exercise.

Detailed description

The study only started after approval of the protocol

Conditions

• Shoulder Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Experimental Scapular Therapeutic Exercise Group	All subjects will perform a program of scapular therapeutic exercises including: neuromuscular control/strength - scapular therapeutic exercises that leads to, at least, moderate muscular activity levels; and stretching exercises. The intervention period will be of 8 weeks, considering in-person and/or home sessions.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-04-20
• Primary completion: 2023-08-31
• Completion: 2023-08-31
• First posted: 2023-04-18
• Last updated: 2024-07-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Portugal