RT journal article
T1 Treatment of Neck Pain With Myofascial Therapies: A Single Blind Randomized Controlled Trial
A1 Rodríguez Huguet, Manuel
A1 Rodríguez-Almagro, Daniel
A1 Rodríguez-Huguet, Pablo
A1 Martín Valero, Rocío
A1 Lomas Vega, Rafael
A2 Enfermería y Fisioterapia
K1 Fascia
K1 Physical Therapy Modalities
K1 Range of Motion
AB Objective: This study aimed to investigate the effects of myofascial release therapy vs a standard physical therapyprogram in patients with neck pain (NP).Methods: This was a randomized controlled trial in which 54 participants with mechanical NP were randomlyassigned into an experimental group (EG) or a comparison group (CG). The EG group (n = 27) received 5 therapysessions of myofascial release therapy while the CG group (n = 27) received 10 sessions of massage, ultrasoundtherapy, and transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation over a 2-week period. Outcome measures were the numericalpain rating scale (NPRS), pressure pain thresholds (PPTs) and range of motion at the end of treatment and at 1-monthfollow-up.Results: At 1-month follow-up, between-group differences in change scores were found in the NPRS (mean =  1.56,95% confidence interval [CI] [ 2.30 to  0.81]; P < .001), in the right thoracic PPT (mean = 0.35, 95% CI [0.03-0.66]; P = .031), and in both left (mean = 0.34, 95% CI [0.08-0.61]; P = .012) and right (mean = 0.29, 95% CI [0.04-0.54]; P = .026) suboccipital PPTs. The success rate was 63.0% in the CG and 92.6% in the EG. The number needed totreat was 3.38 (95% CI = 1.99-11.23).Conclusions: Myofascial release therapy could be better than a standard physical therapy program for improving painand suboccipital PPTs in patients with NP. However, the difference between both
PB Elsevier
SN 1532-6586
YR 2020
FD 2020
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10498/38653
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10498/38653
LA eng
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Cádiz
RD 05-nov-2026