Clinical trial NCT03041727: Physiotherapist Approach to Shoulder's Diseases, Differences Between Fascial Manipulation and Standard Exercises
Official title: Physiotherapist Approach to Shoulder's Diseases, Differences Between Fascial Manipulation and Standard Exercise
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Shoulder Pain
Manual Therapy
Lead sponsor: Azienda Ospedaliera Bolognini di Seriate Bergamo
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2017-02-03
Enrollment: 70
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 20
Maximum age (years): 60
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: Participants are assigned to one of two or more groups in parallel for the duration of the study are evaluated in parallel against a control group.
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: The study purpose is to compare the effects of Fascial Manipulation added to standard exercises protocol versus the simple exercises protocol.

Detailed description: The shoulder degenerative diseases are recurring in hospital employees. The early approach, as we see in literature, has high probability to reduce the pain and the disfunction in the long term.

In particular stretching and strengthening exercises are the standard protocol applied.

The Fascial Manipulation is a manual therapy that works on the connective tissue, by increasing mobility and reducing pain.

We have added the Fascial Manipulation to prove if it make a faster recovery and a pain reduction in the short and the middle term.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* shoulder pain and acute and relapse in six months
* positive results in two orthopedic testes

Exclusion Criteria:

* Degenerative diseases and neurological diseases
* Rheumatological Diseases and cancer
* fracture of the humerus, scapula and collarbone
* documented injury of rotator cuff.
* cortisones therapy in action

Primary outcomes:
measure: Shoulder Pain
timeFrame: Before and after the first treatment. A week after the enrollment.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: shoulder' function
timeFrame: Before and after the first treatment. A week after the enrollment.
measure: shoulder' function
timeFrame: Before and after the fifth treatment, after five weeks. This will be the last treatment
measure: shoulder' function
timeFrame: A month later the last treatment, as follow up
measure: Range of Movement of the shoulder
timeFrame: Before and after the first treatment. A week after the enrollment.
measure: Range of Movement of the shoulder
timeFrame: Before and after the fifth treatment, after five weeks.This will be the last treatment
measure: Range of Movement of the shoulder
timeFrame: A month later the last treatment, as follow up
measure: The shoulder's muscular strength
timeFrame: Before and after the first treatment. A week after the enrollment.
measure: The shoulder's muscular strength
timeFrame: Before and after the fifth treatment, after five weeks. This will be the last treatment
measure: The shoulder's muscular strength
timeFrame: A month later the last treatment, as follow up
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Seriate
country: Italy
facility: AO Bolognini
state: Bergamo
Study officials:
affiliation: Azienda Ospedaliera Bolognini di Seriate Bergamo
name: Massimo Busato, first level
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
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