The effect of electrical stimulation combined with therapeutic exercise on patient with frozen shoulder

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This study investigated the effects of electrical stimulation combined with therapeutic exercise on a seventy-year-old male patient with frozen shoulder. Outcome measures were range of motion and visual analogue scale. The patient was evaluated at the baseline period, the intervention period and the removal period. Our findings demonstrated that electrical stimulation in combination with therapeutic exercise treatment improves shoulder flexion range of motion, horizontal adduction, horizontal abduction, belt-tying movement, visual analogue scale of shoulder flexion, visual analogue scale of horizontal adduction, visual analogue scale of horizontal adduction and visual analogue scale of belt-tying movement. Therefore, it is suggested that electrical stimulation in combination with therapeutic exercise treatment improves shoulder range of motion and reduces shoulder pain in patients with frozen shoulder.