NCT07470190

Anatomical Evaluation of Supraspinatus Through Ultrasonography and Biomechanical Measurements Following Different Combinations of Physical Therapies in Patients of Supraspinatus Tendinitis

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Sehat Medical Complex · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A randomized controlled trial will be conducted to get the expected outcomes. Patients of both gender groups with unilateral shoulder pain will be selected with age range 40-60 years from Sehat medical complex and randomly allocated into four groups (Group A, B, C and D) of two different trials (Trial I and Trial II). The sample size will be 120 patients for both trials. Musculoskeletal ultrasound, goniometry, pain pressure threshold, dynamometer and functional indices will be used to measure the tendon thickness, range of motion, pain, muscle strength and function level. The group A will get BFRT, Group B will get ESWT, group c will get the combination of both and group D will be the Control group (Routine physical therapy). In Trial II the group A will get BFRT, Group B will get Eccentric Training, Group C will get combination of both A \& B and group D will be control group. data will be collected at baseline, 4th week, 8th week and 12 week of interventions. For data analysis SPSS version 25 will be used. Repeated measures ANOVA will be applied to compare the quantitative data within and between the groups. Post-Hoc test Tukey and Bonferroni correction will be used. The level of significance will be set at 5% (P\<0.05).

Detailed description

Musculoskeletal (MSK) disorders affect 1.71 billion people globally. In Pakistan 3.7-20% people are suffering from shoulder pain and while other rotator cuff muscles have been targeted with various therapies singly, neither supraspinatus tendinitis has received its due attention nor has the effect of combination of therapies been explored on it. Additionally, using the technique of MSK ultrasound will give us an objective quantitative basis for the anatomical evaluation. The tendon dimensions and biomechanical measurements of the supraspinatus show marked and differential improvement under the influence of different combinations of physical therapies compared to any single therapy. Objectives:

Conditions

• Supraspinatus Tendinitis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Blood flow Restriction therapy	BFRT 4 Sets of exercise with restriction cuff 30,15,15,15 with cable system pulley ESWT 10 minutes shocks of 2000 J/session
DEVICE	ESWT	10 minutes shocks of 2000 J/session
OTHER	Control	Electric heating pad (Besmed, Taiwan) 10 minutes, TENS (Comfy Stim, Taiwan Model #: EV-806) 10 minutes

Timeline

• Start date: 2026-02-23
• Primary completion: 2026-08-23
• Completion: 2026-08-30
• First posted: 2026-03-13
• Last updated: 2026-03-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Pakistan