Subacute Effects of Spinal Mobilization to Treat Subacromial Impingement

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Conditions studied: Subacromial Impingement Syndrome

In brief

Specific Aims and Hypotheses Aims To investigate the incremental benefits of cervicothoracic spinal manipulation in addition to shoulder mobilization and exercise for improving range of motion, pain, physical function and fear avoidance beliefs in patients with subacromial shoulder impingement. Hypotheses It is hypothesized that those subjects who receive spinal manipulation in addition to shoulder mobilization and exercise will achieve greater improvements in range of motion, pain, function and fear avoidance beliefs at two weeks following treatment conclusion, at 4 weeks following treatment conclusion, and at discharge when compared to the subjects who did not receive the spinal manipulation.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT01753271

Run by

High Point University

People needed

20

Starts

2012-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2015-08-20

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 50. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• To be eligible, participants must meet the clinical prediction rule for unilateral subacromial shoulder impingement including: a) positive Hawkins-Kennedy impingement sign, b) positive painful arc sign, and c) weakness in external rotation with the arm at the side

You may not qualify if…

• Individuals with contraindications to treatment with mobilization and manipulation (Appendix A) will be excluded

Where it is running

• University of Illinois at Chicago — Chicago, Illinois, United States
• Physical Therapy Services — Elizabethton, Tennessee, United States
• East Tennessee State University — Johnson City, Tennessee, United States

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