Nerve Mobilization Techniques After Breast Cancer Surgery

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

140 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-08-10

Study Completion Date

2022-12-10

Brief Summary

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Objective: to determine nerve mobilization techniques effectiveness at improving shoulder disability in the early breast cancer postsurgical period, and whether the effect was maintained at 24-month follow up. Design: prospective randomized and single blind trial where participants will be randomly allocated into two groups by EPIDAT 3.1 software. Follow-up will be conducted through seven physical therapy assessments: one before surgery, the second one after surgery, the third one post-physical therapy intervention, the fourth one after three months, the fifth after six months and, the sixth one after twelve months, and the seven one after 24 months. Participants: one hundred and forty women, who are undergoing a unilateral breast cancer surgery with axillary lymph node dissection in the Breast Cancer Unit from "Príncipe de Asturias" Hospital. Intervention: Early physical therapy to control group and Early physical therapy plus nerve mobilization to intervention group during the three following weeks from surgery. Hypothesis: nerve mobilization helps brachial plexus sliding among its interface which improves shoulder disability the inner arm.

Key outcomes: pain, functional impairment, physical therapy, quality of life. Data analysis: quantitative variables through t-student test and qualitative variable though Chi test through by Statistical Package for the Social Sciences software.

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Detailed Description

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After giving their written informed consent, the participants will be summoned to perform the first assessment prior to surgery. Once participants will be discharged from hospital, approximately 3-5 days following the surgery, will be summoned to perform the second assessment. Those who will fulfil the selection criteria will be randomly allocated into two groups by an independent physical therapist. The experimental group will receive Early Physical Therapy plus neural mobilization and the control group will receive Early Physical Therapy. The same physical therapist will carry out all interventions for both groups. The physical therapist who will carry out the randomization process as well as the one who will perform the interventions will be the only two study members aware of group allocation. A third independent and blinded physical therapist will perform the assessments for all participants. Both physical therapists have more than fifteen years' experience in the treatment of breast cancer side effects. The ULNT1 will be perform to detect mechanosenstiviy-induced pain at presurgical and postsurgical assessments. The test sequence and the criteria will be followed to identify a positive test will reproduce from de study of de la Rosa.

In both groups, those women who will develop axillary web syndrome symptoms will receive an approach that aim at improving vascular tissue flexibility. If secondary lymphoedema will diagnose then complex decongestive physiotherapy will carry out.

Conditions

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Breast Cancer Female

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Two groups: Experimental group \& Control group

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

TRIPLE

Participants Investigators Outcome Assessors

As masking techniques, the people responsible for randomization of intervention in each group, the evaluation of subjects and data collection, the analysis of data will be independent. Participants are also masked, since we think they are unable to distinguish between NDG and CG interventions.

Study Groups

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Neural mobilization group

3 to 5 days after surgery, the participants assigned to this group will receive 9 sessions of early physical therapy plus educational program (described in Torres Lacomba M) plus neurodynamic techniques consisting of neural tissue longitudinal glide using the Upper Limb Neurodynamic Test 1 (ULNT1), the neurodynamic test sequence for the median nerve, described by Butler and adapted by de la Rosa. With participants in the supine position, the shoulder was abducted and externally rotated, the scapula depressed, the forearm supinated, and the wrist and fingers extended. Mobilization was applied by depressing the scapula, flexing the elbow, and elevating the scapula, extending the elbow, within a pain-free range. The mobilization was applied for 2 minutes. Each session will be of 40 minutes approximately and will be held 3 sessions a week for 3 weeks.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Neural mobilization group

Intervention Type OTHER

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Control group

Intervention Type OTHER

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Control group

3 to 5 days after surgery, the participants assigned to this group will receive 9 sessions of early physical therapy plus educational program (described in Torres Lacomba M). Each session will be of 40 minutes approximately and will be held 3 sessions a week for 3 weeks.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Control group

Intervention Type OTHER

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Interventions

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Neural mobilization group

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Intervention Type OTHER

Control group

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Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Women treated for unilateral breast cancer with surgery, including axillary lymph node dissection at the Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics of "Príncipe de Asturias" Hospital
* No contraindication to physical therapy
* Informed consent read, understood, and freely signed