Research Area: Musculoskeletal Diseases

Description

This group is constituted mainly by primary care professionals of the National Health Service from the Baix Llobregat Primary Care Service of the Catalan Institute of Health (CHI). Since 2004, the GEPALAP Group has conducted research projects with the aim tro improve the treatment of musculoskeletal diseases with physiotherapy and rehabilitation. In addition, three investigators of the Physiotherapy Research Unit of the Health Sciencies University of Zaragoza and lecturers at the International University of Catalonia are also members of the GEPALAP research team. The main goal of this group is to advance the efficacy and effectiveness of physiotherapy and rehabilitation techniques in the treatment of musculoskeletal diseases and to evaluate and validate measurement instruments of the clinical variables.

Research Lines

To evaluate the effectiveness of physiotherapy and rehabilitation in musculoskeletal diseases, To evaluate and validate measurement instruments of the clinical variables in musculoskeletal diseases, Evaluation and validation of exploratory techniques of manual therapy or of functional diagnostic or physiotherapeutic orientation.

Members

Projects

Group projects:

PI: Nin Gallego, Gemma. Efectividad del estiramiento del redondo mayor en pacientes afectados de síndrome subacromial. Funding: ICS - Institut Català de la Salut. Duration: 2017 - 2019

PI: López de Celis, Carlos. Estudio comparativo de los efectos de dos técnicas de aplicación de presión mantenida suboccipital en sujetos sanos con restricción de la movilidad según el Test de Flexión Rotación. Funding: ICS - Institut Català de la Salut. Duration: 2016 - 2018

PI: González Rueda, Vanessa. Efectividad del abordaje específico de la región suboccipital en el dolor, la movilidad articular, índice de discapacidad y la significación del cambio clínico en pacientes con cervicalgia mecánicacrónica con déficit de rotación de la columna cervical superior. Funding: ICS - Institut Català de la Salut. Duration: 2016 - 2018

PI: Villar Mateo, Edurne. Efectividad del entrenamiento muscular del transverso del abdomen en pacientes con dolor lumbar crónico. Funding: Col•legi de Fisioterapeutes de Catalunya. Duration: 2015 - 2017

Publications

Group Publications:

González Rueda V, López de Celis C, Barra López ME, Carrasco Uribarren A, Castillo Tomás S, Hidalgo García C. Effectiveness of a specific manual approach to the suboccipital region in patients with chronic mechanical neck pain and rotation deficit in the upper cervical spine: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2017 Sep 5;18(1):384. doi:10.1186/s12891-017-1744-5. PubMed PMID: 28870191; PubMed Central PMCID:PMC5584013. IF: 1,739.

López-de-Celis C, Barra-López ME, González-Rueda V, Dominguez-Cobo A, Fanlo-Mazas P, Tricás-Moreno JM. Efectos a corto y medio plazo de un programa de Fisioterapia que incluye fibrolisis diacutánea en la epicondilalgia lateral crónica. Ensayo clínico no controlado. Cuestiones de Fisioterapia. 2017;46:12-22.

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