Kinesiotaping Effect Glenohumeral Shoulder Subluxation

Ankara Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Education and Research Hospital14 enrolled

Overview

To evaluate the effectiveness of the kinesiotaping on pain, recovery of movement and daily life activities in Turkish hemiplegic patients.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Stroke Subluxation, Glenohumeral

Interventions

kinesiotapeDEVICE

During the rehabilitation program, all patients with GHS had kinesiotaping three times a week.

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 90 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * (1) 18 to 90 years of age, (2) stroke onset within one year, (3) shoulder subluxation in the involved upper extremity and (4) being oriented and cooperative. Exclusion Criteria: * (1) global aphasia, (2) malignancy, (3) previous shoulder pain or surgery, (4) other neuromuscular disorders and (5) severe cardiopulmonary disease that affects daily life activities.

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Subluxation degree by physical examination

A clinician measured the gap between the acromion and the humeral head with the fingerbreadth at the distal interphalangeal joint of the right index and middle fingers

Time frame: 0-3weeks

Subluxation degree by radiograph

The anterio-posterior shoulder X-ray was taken in an erect position, and subluxation was evaluated by Van Langenberghe's five point classification.

Time frame: 0-3weeks

physical examination

Passive range of motion (Flexion and Abduction)

Time frame: 0-3weeks

Secondary Outcomes

Evaluation of the pain of the shoulder

Pain with motion was measured by a verbal descriptive pain scale. The VDPS was developed by Melzack and Katz and is composed of words such as "mild" (level 1) to "very severe pain" (level 5)

Time frame: 0-3weeks

Evaluation of Daily life activities

Daily life activities were evaluated using the Katz index of independence in activities of daily living, which evaluates the patients in bathing, dressing, toileting, transferring, continence, and eating. Activities were scored as zero or one with the total score ranging from zero to six. Higher scores are related with higher independency.

Time frame: 0-3weeks

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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