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The addition of cervical unilateral posterior–anterior mobilisation in the treatment of patients with shoulder impingement syndrome: A randomised clinical trial
- Source :
- Manual Therapy. 19:18-24
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Elsevier BV, 2014.
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Abstract
- Shoulder impingement syndrome (SIS) is a complex, multi-factorial problem that is treated with a variety of different conservative options. One conservative option that has shown effectiveness is manual therapy to the thoracic spine. Another option, manual therapy to the cervical spine, has been studied only once with good results, evaluating short-term outcomes, in a small sample size. The purpose of this study was to investigate the benefit of neck manual therapy for patients with SIS. The study was a randomised, single blinded, clinical trial where both groups received pragmatic, evidence-based treatment to the shoulder and one group received neck manual therapy. Subjects with neck pain were excluded from the study. Comparative pain, disability, rate of recovery and patient acceptable symptom state (PASS) measures were analyzed on the 68 subjects seen over an average of 56.1 days (standard deviation (SD) = 55.4). Eighty-six percent of the sample reported an acceptable change on the PASS at discharge. There were no between-groups differences in those who did or did not receive neck manual therapy; however, both groups demonstrated significant within-groups improvements. On average both groups improved 59.7% (SD = 25.1) for pain and 53.5% (SD = 40.2) for the Quick Disabilities of the Shoulder and Hand Questionnaire (QuickDASH) from baseline. This study found no value when neck manual therapy was added to the treatment of SIS. Reasons may include the lack of therapeutic dosage provided for the manual therapy approach or the lack of benefit to treating the neck in subjects with SIS who do not have concomitant neck problems.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Male
Manipulation, Spinal
medicine.medical_specialty
Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation
Severity of Illness Index
law.invention
Posterior anterior
Randomized controlled trial
law
Humans
Medicine
Single-Blind Method
Range of Motion, Articular
Aged
Pain Measurement
Neck pain
Neck Pain
business.industry
General Medicine
Middle Aged
Combined Modality Therapy
Musculoskeletal Manipulations
Cervical spine
Surgery
Clinical trial
Treatment Outcome
Shoulder Impingement Syndrome
Concomitant
Multivariate Analysis
Physical therapy
Female
medicine.symptom
Manual therapy
business
Follow-Up Studies
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 1356689X
- Volume :
- 19
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Manual Therapy
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....b1555a34a07e8632419adfa5d4630ca4