International Journal of Sport, Exercise and Health Research 2020; 4(2): 69-72 DOI:10.31254/sportmed.4208
Effect of Ischemic Compression and Infrared Radiations on Myofascial Trigger Point of Trapezius
B. Arun1 , R.K. Punitha Kumar1
1. Professor, KG College of Physiotherapy, (Affiliated to The TN Dr MGR Medical University) Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, 641035, India
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Received: 22nd June, 2020 / Accepted: 20th August, 2020
Background and Objective: Trigger point is a hypersensitive spot in a taut band of skeletal muscles, it has intense pain while compression, producing movement and any alterations. Trapezius is the common muscle always develop trigger point, although various management exist in managing the trigger point still there are lot of scope in the research. So far, there are no studies on combining IRR with ischemic compression. The objective of the study was to identify the effect of ischemic compression and infrared radiation on myofascial trigger point of trapezius muscle with neck pain patients. Material and Methods: 60 patients were included for the study using experimental study design, they were recruited following due consideration of the selection criteria. First group is an experimental group, which receives IRR along with Ischemic compression therapy for 20 minutes. Second group is control group receives only IRR with gentle neck stretches for 20 minutes. All patient was advised to follow home advices and instructions given by the therapist through the period of the treatment. Written consent was obtained from every individual participant. The study duration was six months and the individual patient underwent 8 weeks. Study identifies two measures as an outcome, which are pain using numerical pain scale and trigger using pressure pain threshold. Results: Blinded assessor is used to identify the data’s collected from the patient during the initial visit and at the last visit by the participant. All the collected data were analyzed using SPSS 20.0. The result of the study shows that pain scale was 9.72 (p<0.001) and PPT was 12.25 (p<0.001). Conclusion: This study concluded that ischemic compression with infrared radiation therapy in myofascial trigger point of trapezius muscle in neck pain patients and it also significantly reduces the pain as well as the Pressure pain threshold.
Trapezius, Myofascial trigger point, Ischemic compression, Infrared radiation therapy, Pain, Pressure pain threshold
