Neural manual vs. robotic assisted mobilization to improve motion and reduce pain hypersensitivity in hand osteoarthritis: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
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Data di Pubblicazione:
2017
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Neural manual vs. robotic assisted mobilization to improve motion and reduce pain hypersensitivity in hand osteoarthritis: Study protocol for a randomized controlled trial / J.H. Villafañe, K. Valdes, G. Imperio, A. Borboni, R. Cantero-Téllez, S. Galeri, S. Negrini. - In: JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL THERAPY SCIENCE. - ISSN 0915-5287. - 29:5(2017), pp. 801-806. [10.1589/jpts.29.801]
Abstract:
[Purpose] The aim of the present study is to detail the protocol for a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of neural manual vs. robotic assisted on pain in sensitivity as well as analyse the quantitative and qualitative movement of hand in subjects with hand osteoarthritis. [Subjects and Methods] Seventy-two patients, aged 50 to 90 years old of both genders, with a diagnosis of hand Osteoarthritis (OA), will be recruited. Two groups of 36 participants will receive an experimental intervention (neurodynamic mobilization intervention plus exercise) or a control intervention (robotic assisted passive mobilization plus exercise) for 12 sessions over 4 weeks. Assessment points will be at baseline, end of therapy, and 1 and 3 months after end of therapy. The outcomes of this intervention will be pain and determine the central pain processing mechanisms. [Result] Not applicable. [Conclusion] If there is a reduction in pain hypersensitivity in hand OA patients it can suggest that supraspinal pain-inhibitory areas, including the periaqueductal gray matter, can be stimulated by joint mobilization.
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01 - Articolo su periodico
Keywords:
Osteoarthritis; Hand; Rehabilitation
Elenco autori:
J.H. Villafañe, K. Valdes, G. Imperio, A. Borboni, R. Cantero-Téllez, S. Galeri, S. Negrini
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