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Can tape or sound waves ease your shoulder pain?

NCT ID NCT05779033

Symptom relief Sponsor: Cairo University Source: ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026

Summary

This study tested whether adding ultrasound or kinesiotape to shoulder exercises helps people with shoulder impingement syndrome feel less pain and move better. Forty-five adults with shoulder pain for at least a month took part. They did exercises three times a week for four weeks, with some also getting ultrasound and others getting kinesiotape. The goal was to see which combination works best for pain, movement, and daily function.

What this could mean

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Active substance
scapular stabilization exercises, ultrasound, and kinesiotape
What this could lead to
If successful, this could show that adding ultrasound or kinesiotape to exercises helps reduce shoulder pain and improve movement better than exercises alone.
What could go wrong
This is a small, completed trial with only 45 people, so results may not apply to everyone. The treatments are short-term and aim to ease symptoms, not cure the condition.

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Study facts

What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.

Phase

Not a phased trial

Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.

Participants

45 people

The number who actually took part.

Started

Apr 2023

Finished

Oct 2023

Lead sponsor

Other sponsor

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Who can take part

This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.

Ages

20 to 50 years

Sex

Anyone

Healthy volunteers

Not accepted

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Inclusion criteria: 1. Patients with shoulder impingement syndrome from both genders their age will be ranged and divided into three groups from 20-50 years. 2. History of shoulder pain for one month. 3. Positive Neer's impingement test and Hawkin's kiennedy test. 4. Provocation of pain above 60 degrees of flexion and abduction. Exclusion criteria: 1. History of Shoulder girdle fracture, dislocation and surgery 2. Diagnosed with frozen shoulder or rotator cuff tear 3. History of cervicobrachial pain 4. Any neuromuscular pain in upper limb and use of corticosteroids or pain subsiding medication

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Conditions

The condition(s) this trial relates to.

shoulder impingement syndrome Shoulder Pain

As listed by the trial registrant

The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.

Shoulder impingement syndrome

Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Mahmoud Ahmed Kashef

    Cairo, Cairo Governorate, 0325, Egypt

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