Chronic Shoulder Pain Treatment: High Intensity Laser or Ultrasound
CompletedPhase 4NCT02793401
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
The investigators aimed to evaluate the short-term efficacy of High Intensity LASER Therapy (HILT) and Ultrasound (US) treatment in chronic shoulder pain. It's a prospective, randomized, controlled, single blind study.141 patients were randomized into two groups, as HILT (n=71) and US (n=70) groups. HILT or US treatment was applied to the patients in addition to 14 sessions of Hotpack (Hp) + Balneotherapy + Exercise treatment. Pre-treatment (Pre-T), Post-treatment 1st day (Post-T1st day) and Post-T findings for the 30th day (Post-T 30th day) were recorded using the visual analog scale (VAS) and shoulder pain and disability index (SPADI) scoring.
Study details
- Official title
- A Comparison of the Efficacy of High Intensity Laser and Ultrasound Therapies in Patients With Chronic Shoulder Pain: A Randomized Controlled Single Blind Study
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Device: Hıgh İntensity Laser (HILT)
- Device: Ultrasound
- Device: Hotpack
- Device: Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation
- Other: Therapeutic exercises
- Other: Balneotherapy
- Sponsor
- Bursa Yuksek Ihtisas Training and Research Hospital
- Start date
- 2015-05
- Primary completion
- 2015-06
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 35 Years to 75 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * The presence of shoulder pain for more than 3 months patients. Exclusion Criteria: * Limitation in the shoulder movements of more than 20%, * Receiving physical therapy and injection treatment to the same shoulder region in the previous year, * Malignancy, * The presence of radicular pain and cervical myofascial pain syndrome, * A history of acute trauma, * A prior history of fracture in the shoulder to be treated, * A prior history of surgical intervention and implantation of a metal implant to the affected shoulder, * Inflammatory rheumatoid disease.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02793401