Structural and Functional Changes in Supraspinatus Tendinopathy Thtough Percutaneous Electrolysis and Neuromodulation Combined Therapy. A Single-blinded Randomized clínical Trial.

Launched by UNIVERSITY OF CADIZ · Nov 15, 2022

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ClinConnect Summary

Eccentric exercises of the supraspinatus muscle were performed in 3 sets of 10 repetitions. Participants were asked to perform the exercise program on an individual basis twice every day for 4 weeks. The eccentric program consisted of 3 exercises, focusing on the supraspinatus, infraspinatus, and scapular muscles. Participants were asked to do a normal abduction (concentric phase) and a slow return to the initial position (eccentric phase) included first the concentric phase, and the eccentric phase was slowly conducted. The exercise program was taught by a physiotherapist in the first sess...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Patients diagnosed with supraspinatus tendinopathies that do not improve with conventional physiotherapy or pharmacological therapy protocols.
• • Subjects who are in an active state of pain, who present painful symptoms in a sensitive and painful area of the tendon of insertion of the supraspinatus muscle in the humerus.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Individuals who have received surgery intervention in the same shoulder, or have suffered fractures or dislocations in the same shoulder.
• • Individuals have received the proposed treatment in one month´s period previously.
• • Individuals who suffering from cervical radiculopathies, fibromialgia síndrome, cardiac patients with pacemakers, cancer, infectious processes, or generalized lymphedema.
• • Pregnant women can not receive this treatment intervention.