Detection of Early Scapular Dyskinesis
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Conditions studied: Scapular Dyskinesis
In brief
This study is a prospective blind contrast between periscapular muscle thickness measured with MSUS in patients with early AS in comparison to patients with mechanical dyskinesis and to correlate it with EMG findings.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT07681999
- Run by
- Tanta University
- People needed
- 100
- Starts
- 2026-06-19
- Expected to finish
- 2026-07-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2026-07-02
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- treatment-naïve patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), who fulfilled the Assessment of Spondylarthritis Society (ASAS) criteria for axial spondyloarthritis (ax-SpA)
- Inclusion criterion for the second group (non-AS individuals) was patients complaining of discomfort upon activity.
You may not qualify if…
- The exclusion criteria of the first group included:
- patients with a history of local trauma
- and/or surgical intervention,
- neuromascular deficits,
- chronic chest disease and
- other inflammatory autoimmune/rheumatologic conditions.
- Exclusion criteria for the second group were:
- a history of AS or
- other systemic autoimmune/ rheumatologic disease.
Where it is running
- Faculty of medicine, Tanta University — Tanta, Egypt (enrolling)
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