Effect of High Intensity Exercises in Treatment of Patients With Shoulder Impingement Syndrome

Shoulder Impingement Syndrome Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effect of Adding High Intensity Exercises to Conventional Physical Therapy in Treatment of Athlete Patients With Shoulder Impingement Syndrome

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT05950880
• Other study ID #: P.T.REC/012/004361
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: January 1, 2023
• Est. completion date: December 25, 2023

Study information

• Verified date: March 2024
• Source: Cairo University
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Purposes of the study To investigate the effect of adding High-Intensity Exercises to conventional physical therapy in patients with Shoulder Impingement Syndrome

Description:

Patients will be randomized into either High-intensity shoulder exercise group or Conventional physical therapy group. Patients will receive the intervention for six weeks. Outcomes will be assessed at baseline and post-intervention.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 32
• Est. completion date: December 25, 2023
• Est. primary completion date: December 25, 2023
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 35 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Athletic patients

2. Age of the patients between 18 - 35 years

3. Unilateral shoulder pain more than 3 months.

4. Positive Hawkins test.

5. Positive empty or full cane test.

6. Pain at night or incapable of lying on the shoulder.

7. Pain with active shoulder elevation in the scapular plane.

8. History of pain in the C5-C6 dermatome.

9. Pain with palpation of the rotator cuff tendons.

10. The patient had pain with resisted isometric abduction

Exclusion Criteria:

1. History of shoulder instability (positive Sulcus sign, positive apprehension test, and history of shoulder dislocation).

2. Clinical sign of cervical radiculopathy.

3. History of acromio -clavicular pain.

4. Rheumatoid Arthritis.

5. Adhesive capsulitis.

6. Tumors

7. Labrum lesions

8. Capsular or ligamentous tears or avulsions

9. Cartilage lesions

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Rotator Cuff Injuries
• Shoulder Impingement Syndrome
• Syndrome

Intervention

Other:
• High intensity shoulder exercise
Exercises that target the rotator cuff muscles using 90% of one repetition maximum only for 5 repetitions
• Conventional physical therapy
Conventional physical therapy consisting of scapular stabilization exercises, posterior capsule stretch, and rotator cuff activation exercises

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Egypt	facult of physical therapy,MTI	Cairo

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Cairo University

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Egypt, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	pain and function	Shoulder pain and disability index (SPADI)	Change from Baseline pain and function at 6 weaks
Primary	Supraspinatus muscle thickness	Diagnostic Ultrasound	Change from Baseline Supraspinatus muscle thickness at 6 weaks
Secondary	Sub acromial space (Acromiohumeral distance).	Diagnostic Ultrasound	Change from Baseline Sub acromial space at 6 weaks
Secondary	External and internal rotators muscle strength.	Hand-held dynamometer	Change from Baseline External and internal rotators muscle strength at 6 weaks
Secondary	supuraspinatus muscle strength	Hand-held dynamometer	Change from Baseline supuraspinatus muscle strength at 6 weaks
Secondary	shoulder performance	Timed push up test	Change from Baseline shoulder performance at 6 weaks