Daniel Cury Ribeiro1, Ashleigh Day1, Clark R Dickerson2. 1. Centre for Health, Activity and Rehabilitation Research, School of Physiotherapy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. 2. Faculty of Applied Health Sciences, Department of Kinesiology, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To assess: (1) the presence of any carry-over effect between interventions; (2) the immediate effects of inferior shoulder mobilization on shoulder and scapular muscle activity; and (3) to compare muscle activity response between the control and mobilization conditions. Repeated measures, cross-over, pre-post intervention study with sample of convenience. METHODS: Twenty-two asymptomatic individuals performed 10 repetitions of shoulder abduction before and after the control and mobilization, with a dosage of three sets of 30-s duration, with grade-IV. The order of intervention was randomized. Surface electromyography was used for recording activity of upper and lower trapezius; anterior, middle and posterior deltoids; supraspinatus; infraspinatus; and serratus anterior. Repeated measures mixed-model analysis of variance was used to assess immediate changes in muscle activity levels following inferior shoulder mobilization. Statistical parametric mapping (SPM) was used for comparing muscle activity waveforms between control and mobilization conditions throughout the range of motion. RESULTS: No systematic changes in muscle activity levels were found between: (1) baseline and follow-up for each condition, at the concentric and eccentric phases of shoulder abduction; (2) control and mobilization conditions during the concentric and eccentric phases of shoulder abduction. SPM results suggested no differences in muscle activity pattern between conditions. CONCLUSIONS: Inferior shoulder mobilization did not produce immediate effects on shoulder and scapular muscle activity. It is possible that the dose used was insufficient to generate an immediate neuromuscular response to the mobilization.
OBJECTIVES: To assess: (1) the presence of any carry-over effect between interventions; (2) the immediate effects of inferior shoulder mobilization on shoulder and scapular muscle activity; and (3) to compare muscle activity response between the control and mobilization conditions. Repeated measures, cross-over, pre-post intervention study with sample of convenience. METHODS: Twenty-two asymptomatic individuals performed 10 repetitions of shoulder abduction before and after the control and mobilization, with a dosage of three sets of 30-s duration, with grade-IV. The order of intervention was randomized. Surface electromyography was used for recording activity of upper and lower trapezius; anterior, middle and posterior deltoids; supraspinatus; infraspinatus; and serratus anterior. Repeated measures mixed-model analysis of variance was used to assess immediate changes in muscle activity levels following inferior shoulder mobilization. Statistical parametric mapping (SPM) was used for comparing muscle activity waveforms between control and mobilization conditions throughout the range of motion. RESULTS: No systematic changes in muscle activity levels were found between: (1) baseline and follow-up for each condition, at the concentric and eccentric phases of shoulder abduction; (2) control and mobilization conditions during the concentric and eccentric phases of shoulder abduction. SPM results suggested no differences in muscle activity pattern between conditions. CONCLUSIONS: Inferior shoulder mobilization did not produce immediate effects on shoulder and scapular muscle activity. It is possible that the dose used was insufficient to generate an immediate neuromuscular response to the mobilization.
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