Neuroscience Education in Shoulder Pain: Clinical Trial

Universidad de León

Status: Completed

Conditions: Shoulder Pain

Treatments: Behavioral: PNE; Procedure: Manual therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06739694

SALUD DOCTORADO

Details and patient eligibility

About

Objectives: The purpose of this study was to assess the efficacy of a pain neuroscience education programme applied to patients with shoulder pain.

Full description

A randomised controlled trial was performed. Fifty-five patients satisfied eligibility criteria, agreed to participate, and were randomized into an experimental group (n = 27) or control group (n =28). A manual therapy and exercises program was administered for both groups. In addition, a pain neuroscience education protocol was administered for the experimental group for a whole period of 4 weeks (1 session/week, 75mins per session).

Enrollment: 56 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Being 18-70 years of age.
• History of shoulder pain of more than 3 months duration.
• Presence of a painful arc
• Medical diagnosis of shoulder pain with at least 2 positive impingement tests including Neer, Hawkins, or Jobe test

Exclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of fibromyalgia.
• Pregnancy.
• A history of traumatic onset of shoulder pain.
• Other histories of shoulder injury.
• Torn tendons.
• Ligamentous laxity based on a positive Sulcus and apprehension tests.
• Numbness or tingling in the upper extremity.
• Previous shoulder or cervical spine surgery.
• Systemic illness.
• Corticosteroid injection on the shoulder within 1 year of the study.
• Physical therapy 6 months before the study.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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56 participants in 2 patient groups

Experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

Participants will receive 4 sessions of PNE and 5 sessions of manual therapy and exercises.

Treatment:

Procedure: Manual therapy

Behavioral: PNE

Control group

Active Comparator group

Description:

Participants will receive 5 sessions of manual therapy and exercises.

Treatment:

Procedure: Manual therapy