Detection of Early Scapular Dyskinesis

N/ARecruitingNCT07681999

Tanta University100 enrolled

Overview

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.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

100

Conditions

Scapular Dyskinesis

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * 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. Exclusion Criteria: * The exclusion criteria of the first group included: 1. patients with a history of local trauma 2. and/or surgical intervention, 3. neuromascular deﬁcits, 4. chronic chest disease and 5. other inﬂammatory autoimmune/rheumatologic conditions. * Exclusion criteria for the second group were: 1. a history of AS or 2. other systemic autoimmune/ rheumatologic disease.

Locations (1)

Faculty of medicine, Tanta University

Tanta, Egypt

RECRUITING

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

periscapular muscle thickness measured with MSUS in patients with early ASversus patients with mechanical dyskinesis

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.

Time frame: day 1 (At the same time of initial examination)

Central Contacts

Aliaa Mamdouh Abdelaziz Farag, MD

CONTACT

+201069468486 aliaa.mamdouh@med.tanta.edu.eg

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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