作者
Tiago Neto, Sandro R Freitas, Ricardo J Andrade, João R Vaz, Bruno Mendes, Telmo Firmino, Paula M Bruno, Antoine Nordez, Raúl Oliveira
发表日期
2020/4
期刊
Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine
卷号
39
期号
4
页码范围
675-681
出版商
John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
简介
Objectives
Neurodynamic techniques are often used to treat people with sciatica pain, but their mechanical effects on the sciatic nerve are unknown. Shear wave elastography (SWE) has been shown to effectively estimate the stiffness of peripheral nerves in real time. The aim of this study was to use SWE to assess the effects of slump neurodynamics in the sciatic stiffness of people with sciatica.
Methods
Sixteen participants volunteered for this study. The sciatic stiffness of 8 patients with unilateral chronic sciatica and 8 healthy control participants was measured by SWE, with the participants in a prone position and during a dynamic condition (ie, ankle dorsiflexion). These measurements were performed before and immediately after the neurodynamic intervention, which consisted of a static slump position applied to the symptomatic limb of the patients with sciatica and in a randomly chosen limb of the healthy …
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