Subacromial Impingement Syndrome Approach Using High Intensity Laser Therapy

University of Castilla-La Mancha

Status

Completed

Conditions

Subacromial Impingement

Treatments

Device: Sham ilux Laser

Device: iLux Laser

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02971215

jagHNSP

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to assess the effectiveness of high intensity laser therapy in the treatment of subacromial impingement syndrome.

Full description

Shoulder pain has a high prevalence in our society, several studies estimate an annual prevalence between 5% and 47%. It is one of the main causes of musculoskeletal pain, particularly in third place, after the low back pain and neck pain.

Symptoms of pathologies of subacromial space impingement syndrome, where, regardless of origin, pain is the number one symptom for the patient, which emanates functional impairment and the impact on quality of life. Because of the need to implement research to assess the effectiveness of high intensity laser therapy with new studies mayor methodological quality of obtaining conclusive results, and based on the scientific evidence supporting the low-power laser therapy as a useful tool in addressing the shoulder tendon pathology, we consider very interesting the realization of this research project.

Enrollment

46 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 75 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients between 18 and 75 years old with diagnosis of subacromial impingement syndrome or any of the pathologies that compose it (tendinosis-tendinitis supraspinatus and rest of the rotator cuff, subacromial bursitis and tendinitis of the long head of the biceps).
Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) less than or equal to 7.
Forward flexion at least of 100º

Exclusion criteria

Calcific tendinitis
Complete rupture of the rotator cuff.
Adhesive capsulitis.
Clinical history of pathologies that without affecting the shoulder joint refer to painful shoulder symptoms (cervical root involvement, cervical surgery, cervical osteoarthritis and neurological pathologies)
Fibromyalgia
Be receiving physiotherapeutic treatment or have received it previously for this pathology one month before the start of treatment.
Patients with alterations of thermal sensitivity.
Derived from the absolute and relative contraindications of Laser Therapy:
Photosensitive patients
Neoplastic processes
Hyperthyroidism
Pregnancy
Patients with a history of epileptic seizures