Mirror Therapy for Impingement Syndrome

Kutahya Health Sciences University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Impingement Syndrome; Mirror Movements 2

Treatments: Other: conventional physiotherapy; Other: mirror therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05188157

MLeblebicier2

Details and patient eligibility

About

Background: Mirror therapy is an adjuvant treatment option based on shoulder impingement Syndrome Objective:To investigate the effect of mirror theraphy on shoulder impingement Syndrome Methods: The study included 62 participants, including cases in the intervention group (IG) (± years) and 20 cases in the control group (CG) (years) who met the selection criteria. IG received mirror theraphy with regular physiotherapy while CG received only regular physiotherapy. The patients were evaluated with the before treatment, immediately after treatment (post-treatment).

Enrollment: 62 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being aged 18-75 years
• Being diagnosed with shoulder impingement syndrome

Exclusion criteria

• Being uncooperative
• Having an additional systemic disease
• Having uncontrolled hypertension
• Presence of heart failure
• Having hearing or vision problems
• Having a balance disorder
• Diagnosis of heart disease and lung disease so advanced that exercise is contraindicated
• History of shoulder surgery
• Have any pathology that may cause referred pain (eg, cervical radiculopathy)
• Shoulder trauma, previous humeral fracture history
• Steroid injection to the shoulder joint or subacromial bursa in the last 6 months

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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62 participants in 2 patient groups

control group

Other group

Description:

conventional physiotherapy

Treatment:

Other: conventional physiotherapy

mirror therapy group

Experimental group

Description:

conventional physiotherapy and mirror therapy

Treatment:

Other: conventional physiotherapy

Other: mirror therapy