Effectiveness of Manual Myofascial Release Versus Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue Mobilization (IASTM) in Patients With Chronic Neck Pain"

Foundation University Islamabad

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Chronic Neck Pain

Treatments: Procedure: Manual Myofascial Release; Procedure: Instrument Assisted Soft tissue Mobilization

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05502406

FUI/CTR/2022/9

Details and patient eligibility

About

Neck pain has a global prevalence of 30%, being the fourth leading cause of disability among general population and is more prevalent among females than males, as per concluded by evidence. It is undoubtedly the need of time, to address its proper treatment and to hinder its recurrence amongst the general population. The current physical therapy management of neck pain is more focused towards achieving the short term goals for the patient rather than addressing and amending the actual cause of its relapse. Manual Myofascial Release is one of the very effective treatment used to release soft tissue and fascial adhesions over the myofascia inorder to relieve chronic neck pain. The study aims to compare this manual treatment against Instrument Assisted soft tissue mobilization in order to determine which of the two provides improved outcome in terms of pain, neck disability and cervical Range of motion.

Enrollment: 40 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Male and Female participants belonging to the age group of 18 to 40 years
• Participants suffering from neck pain for more than 3months.

Exclusion criteria

• Recent history of Whiplash Injury.
• Recent traumatic history of head, cervical spine, shoulder girdle or fractures of the cervical spine or shoulder complex.
• History of Cervical Radiculopathy, spondylosis, spondylolisthesis, disc prolapse, any other systemic disease or vascular syndrome such as vertebro-basilar Insufficiency.
• Diagnosed Fibromyalgia, myopathy or myelopathy
• Sensory/Motor dysfunction owing to any neurological pathology in the mid or upper back.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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40 participants in 2 patient groups

IASTM

Experimental group

Description:

The participants of the respective group will receive myofascial release using a C shaped glider, by the help of gentle horizontal strokes the targeted soft tissue restrictions will be relieved over the cervicodorsal fascia

Treatment:

Procedure: Instrument Assisted Soft tissue Mobilization

MMFR

Experimental group

Description:

The participants of the respective group will recieve manual soft tissue release over the cervicodorsal fascia using velvet glove technique for a period of 5 to 7 mins inorder to set free any adhesion in the underlying myofascia

Treatment:

Procedure: Manual Myofascial Release