A New Shoulder Proprioceptive Rehabilitative Tool (SRPT) for the Evaluation of the Role of the Shoulder During Reaching (SRPT-Iphase)

University of Roma La Sapienza

Status: Completed

Conditions: Shoulder Impingement Syndrome

Treatments: Other: shoulder proprioceptive rehabilitation tool

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02646306

3826/2015

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of the study focused on the creation of a rehabilitative measuring device (SRPT-shoulder proprioceptive rehabilitation tool) and the development of the examination methodology for assessing the proprioception of the glenohumeral joint respect to scapula abduction, within the movement of antepulsion on the sagittal plane both in healthy subjects and in patients with shoulder impingement syndrome.

Enrollment: 44 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 55 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Right-handed
• Diagnosis of subacromial right impingement syndrome performed by the orthopedic specialist (nuclear magnetic resonance and/or ultrasound examination)
• Neer stages 1, 2 and 3
• Presence of pain 3 <VAS<8 at baseline
• Age between 55 and 65 years.

Exclusion criteria

• Diabetes mellitus
• Inflammatory systemic diseases
• CNS and/or PNS diseases
• Systemic infectious diseases
• Neoplastic diseases
• Assumption of antidepressants and/or anxiolytics and/or other medications that can affect attention and sensory
• Visual problems not properly compensated
• Previous surgery to the shoulder

Trial design

44 participants in 2 patient groups

Shoulder Impingement Syndrome

Description:

Execution of two tests in succession with the use of the shoulder proprioceptive rehabilitation tool (SRPT), each oriented to indicate a specific discriminative and integrative mode in the movement of the scapulothoracic. Will be required to each subject to perform recognition tasks that include both retraction movements of the hand, starting from a start position, and approaching movements of the hand, starting from an end position. First test: ability to integrate visual and proprioceptive informations. Second test: discriminative proprioceptive capacity of the subject, thus excluding the contribution of the view.

Treatment:

Other: shoulder proprioceptive rehabilitation tool

Healthy Subjects

Description:

Execution of two tests in succession with the use of the shoulder proprioceptive rehabilitation tool (SRPT), each oriented to indicate a specific discriminative and integrative mode in the movement of the scapulothoracic. Will be required to each subject to perform recognition tasks that include both retraction movements of the hand, starting from a start position, and approaching movements of the hand, starting from an end position. First test: ability to integrate visual and proprioceptive informations. Second test: discriminative proprioceptive capacity of the subject, thus excluding the contribution of the view.

Treatment:

Other: shoulder proprioceptive rehabilitation tool