NCT06267755

Efficacy of Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy on Ultrasonography Changes of Upper Trapezius Myofascial Trigger Points in Patients With Non Specific Neck Pain

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

this study will be conducted to investigate the effect of Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy on Ultrasonography Changes of Upper Trapezius Myofascial Trigger Points in Patients With Non Specific Neck Pain

Detailed description

Neck pain is one of the most commonly reported musculoskeletal disorders. The prevalence for neck pain varies between 16.7% and 75.1% in the general population. Up to 67% of world's population may present chronic non-specific neck pain at least once in their lives. The upper trapezius is probably the muscle most often beset by trigger points, it is indicated that the upper trapezius is the most sensitive of 8 different muscles (upper trapezius, pectoralis major, levator scapulae, teres major, supraspinatus, gluteus medius, infraspinatus, paraspinal) to the pressure of an algometer.Recently, the extracorporeal shock wave has been widely known to be an effective therapeutic modality in myofascial pain syndrome treatment and a systematic review provided promising insight into the effectiveness of ESWT in Myofascial pain syndrome treatment. sixty patients with non specific neck pain will be assigned randomly to two groups; first one will receive shock wave therapy and traditional therapy and the second one will receive traditional therapy only for six weeks.

Conditions

• Neck Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Extracorporeal Shockwave therapy	the patients will receive Extracorporeal Shockwave therapy sessions by 600 impulses with 1.6 bar pressure at a frequency of 8 Hz on site of the upper trapezius
OTHER	Traditional physical therapy	the patients will receive Traditional physical therapy in the form of Integrated neuro-muscular inhibition technique + posture correction and scapular stabilization exercises.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-02-20
• Primary completion: 2024-08-30
• Completion: 2024-08-30
• First posted: 2024-02-20
• Last updated: 2024-02-20