Pragmatic Posterior Capsular Stretch Versus Sleeper Stretch in Subject With Shoulder Pathologies
Unknown statusNot applicableNCT05064033
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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 glenohumeral joint is an articulation between the glenoid of the scapula and the head of the humerus that is enclosed by a synovial capsule divided into three main components: anterior, posterior, and the axillary pouch. Symptoms of posterior capsule tightness are linked to altered shoulder biomechanics and impairments which includes glenohumeral internal rotation deficit, incomplete glenohumeral adduction, impaired inferior glenohumeral ligament (IGHL) function, and increased risk of impingement symptoms. In the literature the two techniques available for stretching posterior capsule are pragmatic posterior capsular stretch and sleeper stretch. Pragmatic posterior capsular stretch is therapist administered and sleeper stretch is patient-administered. The work on the pragmatic posterior capsular stretch is more specified and rational to mark the tightness in the posterior capsule.
Study details
- Official title
- Pragmatic Posterior Capsular Stretch Versus Sleeper Stretch in Subject With Shoulder Pathologies: a Randomized Control Trial (RCT)
- Conditions
- Shoulder Impingement
- Shoulder Arthritis
- Shoulder Injuries
- Shoulder Capsulitis
- Shoulder Bursitis
- Shoulder Pain Chronic
- Interventions
- Other: Pragmatic Set of intervention and posterior capsular stretch
- Other: Pragmatic Set of intervention and Sleeper Stretch
- Sponsor
- Helping Hand Institute of Rehabilitation Sciences
- Start date
- 2021-05-24
- Primary completion
- 2021-12-24
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 60 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Pakistan
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: -Limitation in range of motion abduction or internal rotation or external rotation or reaching up behind the back or reaching behind down the neck are only one of the limitations in comparison with the unaffected joint. A patient who fall in grade 1 and grade 2 of the shoulder mobility test of functional movement screening. Exclusion Criteria: -Patient with shoulder ligamentous instability Functional movement Screening score 0 or 3. Cancerous growth around the shoulder girdle Rheumatoid arthritis patients The patient has a recent fracture of less than the 6th-week duration or shoulder dislocation. Long term use of steroids Cervical joint dysfunction, radicular pain. Systemic diseases.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05064033