Muscle Energy Technique Versus Maitland Mobilization on Shoulder Pain and Disability

Cairo University (CU)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Shoulder Pain

Surgery

Pain Syndrome

Mobility Limitation

Neck Cancer

Treatments

Other: Muscle energy technique

Other: Traditional shoulder exercise

Other: Maitland mobilization

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06010381

P.T.REC/012/003370

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of muscle energy technique versus Maitland's mobilization on shoulder pain and disability after neck dissection surgeries.

Full description

Thirty patients with shoulder pain and limited ROM post-neck dissection surgeries participated in this study. Patients were subdivided into two groups, fifteen patients in each group. Group A received the muscle energy technique and group B received Maitland's mobilization.

Data obtained from both groups regarding the Visual Analogue Scale, it has a 100-mm-long horizontal line labeled ''no pain' (with or without related facial expressions) at one extreme and ''worst pain ever' at the other. Pain intensity is determined by the length of the line as measured from the left-hand side to the point marked, The Shoulder Pain and Disability Index, it has two subscales; The pain subscale includes five questions about pain intensity. The disability subscale includes eight questions about difficulty in different orders. Each question of both pain and disability subscale was scaled in numeric ratings ranging from 0 to 10. Each score was summed up and transformed into percentages. Finally, the average score between pain and disability subscale comprised the total SPADI scores ranging from 0 (the best) to 100 (the worst), and shoulder flexion, abduction, and external ROM were statistically analyzed and compared.

Enrollment

30 patients

Sex

All

Ages

25 to 70 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Age range between 25-70 years.
Male and female patients participated in the study.
All patients had shoulder pain following different NDS
All patients had no previous shoulder pain.
All patients enrolled in the study had their informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

Previous shoulder pain from any other causes.
Pregnancy.
Epileptics.
Radiotherapy.
Chemotherapy.

Trial design

Primary purpose

Treatment

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

None (Open label)

30 participants in 2 patient groups

Muscle energy technique

Active Comparator group

Description:

This group includes 15 patients who received muscle energy technique post-surgery in addition to traditional shoulder exercise, 3 sessions/week for four weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Muscle energy technique

Other: Traditional shoulder exercise

Maitland mobilization

Active Comparator group

Description:

This group includes 15 patients who received mobilization in addition to traditional shoulder exercise, 3 sessions/week for four weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Traditional shoulder exercise

Other: Maitland mobilization