Immediate Effects of Dynamic Myofascial Release for Chronic Neck Pain

• Main Authors: Hong-Yi Chiu, 邱谹益
• Other Authors: Mei Fang Liu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2016
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/39580919021825793707

碩士 === 高雄醫學大學 === 物理治療學系碩士班 === 104 === Background and purpose: Neck pain is a highly prevalent musculoskeletal disorder. More than 35% of patients have been diagnosed this disorder developed into much severer chronic neck pain. The study combines active movement with myofascial release of the patients’. We name this therapy “dynamic myofascial release”. Hopefully, by using this therapy, the suffering patients will be able to improve the problems of myofascial limitation, pain, and functional performances. Also, we can compare the diversity of adopting stretching exercise. Methods: 34 subjects with chronic neck pain participated in this experiment. Assigning the subjects into two groups randomly, which are dynamic myofascial release and strechting exercise. Within the procedure, both groups were be given 15 minutes of intervention time. The effectiveness of the therapy was being measured seperately before and after the intervention. The following items are the awareness of self-conscious pain, muscle pressure pain threshold, range of motion, neck disability, and fear avoid belief. Results: Dynamic myofascial release group has significant improvement after treatment on conscious pain, range of motion, neck disability, and fear avoid belief, yet there is not apparent improvement on the item of muscle pressure pain threshold. On the other hand, Stretching exercise group has significant improvement after treatment only on two items of conscious pain and neck disability. In comparision with two groups, dynamic myofascial release group outperformed to stretching exercise group on conscious pain, range of motion, and neck disability, but other items has no significant improvement. Conclusion: The result of the study demonstrates immediate improve of dynamic myofascial release for conscious pain, range of motion, neck disability and fear avoid belief of chronic neck pain, and the effectiveness is better than strectching exercise group.