Resultados de la aplicación de liberación posicional mediante técnica de inhibición neuromuscular integrada en puntos gatillo miofaciales para el tratamiento de cervicalgia en el centro de salud El Valle, Cuenca, abril-octubre 2015.

Abstract

Precedents: Cervicalgia is one of the most common reasons for consultation in the area of Physical Therapy. It affects 30% to 50% of the world population 1, 2. In El Valle Medical Center in Cuenca-Ecuador, from September 2014 to February 2015, 37.02% of patients seen were diagnosed with Cervicalgia 3.

General Objective: To evaluate the results from the application of positional liberation through Integrated Neuromuscular Inhibition Technique (INIT) in myofascial trigger points as a Cervicalgia treatment, in El Valle Medical Center, Cuenca-Ecuador, from April 2015 to October 2015.

Methodology: Quasi-experimental study, without a control group, pretest-posttest design on one experimental group and evaluated according to these variables: myofascial trigger points, pressure pain threshold, visual analogue scale, age, and gender. Treatment consisted in applying INIT. The data obtained was analyzed, organized, and interpreted using the Statistical Software SPSS 15.0. Treatment efficacy was determined through the value of p, obtained with t-test for dependent samples.

Results: After the intervention, according to the Visual Analogue Scale, levels of pain were significantly lower (p=0.000), the number of trigger points dropped (p= 0.000) and a higher pain threshold was observed (p=0.000).

Conclusion: The effects of the INIT were statistically significant effect in reducing the symptoms caused by neck pain.

Keywords: CERVICALGIA, POSITIONAL LIBERATION, INTEGRATED NEUROMUSCULAR INHIBITION TECHNIQUE, CERVICAL VERTEBRAE, VISUAL ANALOGUE SCALE, ALGOMETRY, TRIGGER POINTS.