Effectiveness of Fascial Manipulation in Rotator's Cuff Surgery Patients

Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli

Status

Completed

Conditions

Cuff Rotator Syndrome

Treatments

Other: standard physiotherapies treatment

Other: fascial manipulation

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01888016

Manifa

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose is to evaluate the effectiveness of fascial manipulation treatment in terms to reduce pain and improve physical functionality after rotator's cuff surgery. The technique involves deep friction manipulation of fascia's specific spots. Distant from surgical site.

Full description

To evaluate the effectiveness of fascial manipulation treatment associated with standard physiotherapies treatment in rotator's cuff surgery patients, we'll randomize about 60 patients for arm's of study. Both arm's will receive 10 standard physiotherapies treatments in 2 weeks while the experimental arm will receive 3 manual intervention on deep fascial tissues, according to fascial manipulation technique, providing a specific motor and manual assessment, and a deep manual intervention over specific fascial alteration.

To evaluate the effectiveness of fascial manipulation treatment we'll use 2 type of outcome measure and we will compare the result of both arms of study.

Enrollment

60 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 65 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Rotator's cuff surgery patients that have been operated within the past 4/5 weeks
Age between 18 to 65 years old

Exclusion criteria

Patients with traumatic shoulder's injury that involved bone's fractures.
Severe underlying pathologies like rheumatic, neurological and cardio pathologies that affect the correct shoulder treatment
Patients on anticoagulant treatment