Abstract

Study Design: Quasi Experimental study. 

Objective: The aim of this study is to compare the immediate effect, on pain, following a single treatment of tender points in the upper trapezius muscle involving the strain/counterstrain technique and myofascial release. 

Method: Thirty subjects presenting with trapezitis, aged 18 - 25 years old, were selected for this study. Subjects were divided into 2 groups, group A which was treated with the strain/counterstrain technique and group B which was treated with the myofascial release technique. The outcome measure was the visual analogue scale assessing local pain elicited by the application of pressure on the tender point. It was assessed pre-treatment and 2 min post- treatment by an assessor blinded to the treatment allocation of the subject. 

Results: Results of between group analysis showed positive findings concluding that Strain/counter strain technique was nearly 10% more effective in reducing pain on VAS than Myofascial release (p = 0.016). 

Conclusion: In this study it was found that SCS was more effective than MFR in immediate pain relief of active TrP of upper trapezius.

Keywords: Strain/Counterstrain; Myofascial Release; Visual Analogue Scale; Upper Trapezitis

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Citation

Citation: Priya Gupta and Nehal Shah. “Immediate Effect of Strain/ Counterstrain V/S Myofascial Release on Local Pain of Upper Trapezitis”. Acta Scientific Orthopaedics 3.4 (2020): 43-46.

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Copyright: © 2020 Priya Gupta and Nehal Shah. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.