the Thickness of the Muscles and Pain in Impingement Syndrome

Istanbul Physical Medicine Rehabilitation Training and Research Hospital

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Pain, Shoulder; Impingement Syndrome; Impingement Shoulder

Treatments: Diagnostic Test: muscle thickness

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06665139

2024/50

Details and patient eligibility

About

Pain intensity will be measured with visual analog scale. Sonographic severity grade of shoulder impingement syndrome, serratus anterior muscle, upper trapezius and middle trapezius will be measured with USG in patients diagnosed with impingement and meeting the criteria and healthy volunteers.

Full description

Patients diagnosed with impingement and meeting the criteria will be included, while the healthy group will consist of hospital staff who do not have shoulder pain and who are not diagnosed with a shoulder-related disease. Pain intensity will be measured with VAS (visual analog scale), the sonographic severity grade of shoulder impingement syndrome, the serratus anterior muscle, the upper trapezius and the middle trapezius will be measured with USG.

Enrollment: 124 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 18-65 years
• Cognitive ability to understand test instructions
• Symptom duration longer than 1 month
• At least two positive Neer, Hawkins and painful arch tests

for healty volunteers

• 18-65 years
• cognitive ability to understand test instructions
• negative impingment test

Exclusion criteria

• Fibromyalgia
• cervical radiculopathy
• those who have received injections or physical therapy in the last month
• Those with a disorder that may affect shoulder joint range of motion and muscle mass (previous fracture, surgery, subluxation)
• BMI over 35
• inflammatory disease

Trial design

124 participants in 2 patient groups

impigment

Description:

Patients diagnosed with impingement and meeting the criteria will be included,

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: muscle thickness

healty

Description:

the healthy group will consist of hospital staff who do not have shoulder pain and who are not diagnosed with a shoulder-related disease.

Treatment:

Diagnostic Test: muscle thickness