Issue №2-20, 2020

Innovative technologies in the treatment of humeroscapular pain syndrome at a health resort rehabilitation stage



1 Nikitin M.V., 1 Konchugova T.V., 1 Pavlovskiy S.A.

1 National Research Medical Center of Rehabilitation and Balneology, Moscow, Russian Federation


ABSTRACT

In modern sanatorium-resort organizations there is an urgent need of effective innovative physiotherapeutic methodsusage along with basic resort treatment, that is especially important for patients’ resort treatment duration reduction.Extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) is evidence-based physiotherapeutic method.The aim of the study is to evaluate the high clinical efficacy of ESWT method in comparison with traditional methods oftreatment at the sanatorium-resort complex «Vulan».Materials and methods: ESWT method effectiveness study was carried out in 111 people with shoulder joints andperiarticular tissues pathology of various etiology aged 30-79 years (average age 45.5 years), disease duration from 1 yearto 10-12 years (average 4.5 years).Results: According to the Swanson Score, in patients of the main group (n=57) «pain score» improved from 3.5 (before)to 8.3 (after), that is 2.3 times. “Activity in everyday life” raised from 4.7 to 8.6 (1.7 times), the volume of active movementsincreased from 3.2 to 7.9 (2.5 times). According to the Likert scale, patients reported a subjective improvement in theirown well-being by 4.6 point. According to VAS scale a decrease in pain syndrome intensity was recorded (2.2 times inaverage). In patients of comparison group, who received basic resort treatment, positive changes were less significant.Conclusion: Objective and subjective data obtained in this study indicates a high clinical effect of ESWT in a complexhealth-resort treatment of patients with humeroscapular pain syndrome.


KEYWORDS: shoulder pain; method of extracorporeal shock wave therapy; assessment of the functional state of the body

For citation: Nikitin M.V., Konchugova T.V., Pavlovskiy S.A. Innovative technologies in the treatment of humeroscapular pain syndrome at a health resort rehabilitation stage. Bulletin of rehabilitation medicine. 2020; 96 (2): 90-93. https://doi.org/10.38025/2078-1962-2020-96-2-90-93



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