Clinical Trial: Effects of Eccentric Training for Shoulder Abductors in Subjects With Shoulder Impingement Syndrome

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional

Official Title: Eccentric Training for Shoulder Abductors Improves Pain, Function and Isokinetic Performance Steadiness in Subjects With Shoulder Impingement Syndrome

Brief Summary: The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect of eccentric strength training for shoulder abductors on force steadiness in subjects with subacromial impingement syndrome (SIS).

Detailed Summary:

Although it is known that shoulder abduction in subjects with subacromial impingement syndrome (SIS) presents alterations in several parameters, as for example, in scapular and glenohumeral kinematics, the strengthening of the shoulder abductors as an intervention strategy is controversial in literature.

Strength training has been shown to be effective in reducing the fluctuations in force and had a positive effect on isometric steadiness in old adults and in healthy young subjects during bed rest. However, there are no studies that evaluated the effects of strength training on the force steadiness in subjects with SIS.

Sponsor: Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos

Current Primary Outcome: Isokinetic evaluation [ Time Frame: 2 months ]

Original Primary Outcome: Same as current

Current Secondary Outcome: Disabilities of the Arm, Shoulder, and Hand (DASH) questionnaire [ Time Frame: 2 months ]

Original Secondary Outcome: Same as current

Information By: Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos

Dates:
Date Received: March 18, 2010
Date Started: October 2007
Date Completion:
Last Updated: March 18, 2010
Last Verified: September 2007