EFFECTIVENESS OF GRADED MOTOR IMAGERY IN PAIN AND DISABILITY AFTER ROTATOR CUFF INJURY
soi: 21-2017/re-trjvol02iss02p75
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.52567/trj.v2i02.31Abstract
Objective: to determine the effects of graded motor imagery (GMI) on pain and disability in rotator cuff injuries. Methodology: A Randomized Control Trial conducted at national institute of rehabilitation medicine (NIRM) after the approval from the executive director. A total n=40 subjects were recruited through non probability convenient sampling technique and allocated randomly in the Conventional physical therapy (CPT) (n=20) and the graded motor imagery (GMI) group (n=20). Patients with age range 25-50 years having history of trauma with positive impingement sign were included and patient with diabetes were excluded from the study. The data was collected through General demographic questionnaire included age, gender, ADLs, Diabetes, Hyper tension etc. Shoulder Pain and Disability Index (SPADI) was used to measure current shoulder pain and disability in an outpatient setting. Data was compared at baseline and after 2nd week and 4th week. Results: The mean age of the study participants was 38.67±7.437 years. Within-group changes showed that both group improved significantly (p≤0.05) from 0-4th week regarding total shoulder pain and disability score. While comparing the both groups, significant improvement (p≤0.05) was found in as compare to conventional PT group. Conclusion: graded motor imagery (GMI) and conventional PT both are effective for management of pain and disability due to rotator cuff injuries. But GMI was found to be more effective than conventional PT. Keyword: rotator cuff injury, graded motor imagery, pain, disability, phantom limb pain
Downloads
Published
Issue
Section
License
Copyright (c) 2018 Shomaila Malik, Saima Aslam, Suhail Karim Soomro, Summayya Zaman Malik, Danish Rauf
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgment of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal.