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The effectiveness of functional electrical stimulation for the treatment of shoulder subluxation and shoulder pain in hemiplegic patients: A randomized controlled trial
- Source :
- Disability and Rehabilitation. 32:560-566
- Publication Year :
- 2009
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2009.
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Abstract
- To investigate the effect of functional electrical stimulation (FES) for the treatment of shoulder subluxation and shoulder pain in hemiplegic patients.A total of 50 hemiplegic patients with shoulder subluxation and shoulder pain were included in the study. The patients were randomly divided into the study and control groups. All patients were put on a rehabilitation program using conventional methods while the study group patients were additionally applied FES to supraspinatus and posterior deltoid muscles. The shoulder pain of all patients during resting, passive range of motion (PROM) and active range of motion (AROM) was measured with the visual analog scale (VAS) while the shoulder subluxation levels were evaluated with the classification developed by Van Langenberghe and by using the millimetric measurements on anteroposterior shoulder X-ray before and after the physical treatment and rehabilitation program and compared.Comparison of the resting AROM vs. PROM VAS value changes showed no significant difference between the groups. There was a significant difference between the two groups for the amount of change in shoulder subluxation in favor of the study group.The results of our study have shown that applying FES treatment to the supraspinatus and posterior deltoid muscles in addition to conventional treatment when treating the subluxation in hemiplegic patients is more beneficial than conventional treatment by itself.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Joint Instability
Male
musculoskeletal diseases
medicine.medical_specialty
medicine.medical_treatment
Electric Stimulation Therapy
Hemiplegia
law.invention
Physical medicine and rehabilitation
Randomized controlled trial
Shoulder Pain
law
Humans
Medicine
Functional electrical stimulation
Electric stimulation therapy
Range of Motion, Articular
Aged
Rehabilitation
business.industry
Shoulder Dislocation
Stroke Rehabilitation
Recovery of Function
Middle Aged
Shoulder subluxation
Stroke
Female
business
Range of motion
human activities
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14645165 and 09638288
- Volume :
- 32
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Disability and Rehabilitation
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9359ea555cbc625be1c610631bf404a6