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Deep Friction Massage for Intercostal Pain in Patients With Heart Disease

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St. Olavs Hospital

Status

Completed

Conditions

Heart Diseases
Pain

Treatments

Other: heat-pack only
Other: heat-pack with massage

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

Details and patient eligibility

About

Studies show that chest pain is a common complaint presented in both general practice and in emergency units. Musculoskeletal causes are common, but frequently overlooked. No studies about treatment of chest pain from the intercostal muscles were found by search in medical literature databases. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of two different physical therapy interventions on intercostal pain in patients with stable heart disease.

The hypothesis was that deep friction massage combined with heat-pack is more effective than heat-pack only.

Enrollment

29 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 80 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • increasing chest pain during a cardiac rehabilitation class
  • stable coronary disease
  • new re-vascularisation is not planned

Exclusion criteria

  • unstable coronary disease
  • not able to perform the study
  • abuse of drugs or alcohol
  • participating in other ongoing study

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

29 participants in 2 patient groups

heat-pack with massage
Experimental group
Description:
deep friction massage and standard heat-pack given a maximum of 8 treatments
Treatment:
Other: heat-pack with massage
heatpack only
Active Comparator group
Description:
standard heat-pack given a maximum of 8 treatments
Treatment:
Other: heat-pack only

Trial contacts and locations

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