1Senior Sports Therapist, Sports and Exercise Medicine Department, Manipal Hospital, 98, Rustam Bagh Road, HAL Airport Road, Bangalore
2Knowledge Management Analyst, Deloitte Consulting Pvt. Ltd, Hyderabad
*Corresponding author: Shahbaz Nawaz Ansari, Door No: 150, 2nd Floor, 1st Stage, 1st Cross, Karnataka layout, Kurubarahalli, Bangalore - 560086, Karnataka. India, Contact No: +91-9886814104, E-mail id: dr.shahbaznawaz@gmail.com
Online published on 25 November, 2013.
Effectiveness of any individualized therapeutic modality in reducing pain in frozen shoulder is questionable and the combination of therapies has contradictory results.
The purpose of this study was to check the effectiveness of Ultrasound with end range mobilization over Cryotherapy with end range mobilization in alleviating pain of patients with frozen shoulder.
Forty subjects diagnosed to have frozen shoulder were randomly assigned to two groups. Subjects in Group I received Ultrasound and End range mobilization of shoulder while subjects in Group II got Cryotherapy and End range mobilization of shoulder. Both the groups were treated once a day, 6 days a week for 4 weeks. Response to pain was considered as the outcome measure.
Data analysis was done considering p<0.05 as statistically significant and the't’ values were estimated. It was found that ultrasound when combined with end range mobilization had a't’ value of 1.8342 in comparison to that of cryotherapy combined with End range mobilization group.
Ultrasound with end range mobilization produced better pain relief compared to cryotherapy with end range mobilization and therefore can be recommended as a safe treatment for frozen shoulder.
Frozen Shoulder, Ultrasound, End Range Mobilization, Cryotherapy
