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Study aim
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The effect of adding tecartherapy on routine physiotherapy on pain and kinetic changes in runners with medial tibial stress syndrome
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Design
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The study will be randomized, with a sample size of 40 people in parallel groups. Eligible patients will be randomly assigned to the intervention group and control group using the blocking method.
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Settings and conduct
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intervention group with tecar combined with routine physiotherapy which includes tens and ultrasound. A special training program that includes stretching and strengthening exercises and group B as a control group that receives only routine physiotherapy according to the protocol of the first group. This protocol will be used and the site of this project is the Faculty of Rehabilitation of Iran University of Medical Sciences.
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Participants/Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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Inclusion criteria: any gender, people aged 20-40 years, have a history of pain during exercise in the inner-posterior part of the tibia, and pain by touching the posterior-inner edge of the tibia is about 5 cm in place, Pain that occurs with exercise and occurs during and after exercise, the presence of pain in the dominant affected leg, subjects at least a week to suffer from this pain.
Exclusion criteria: imbalance, middle ear disorder, current or previous radiological signs of a stress fracture or other type of fracture, local infection or osteomyelitis, tumor in the area, previous surgery on the same leg, previous use of tecartherapy to treat tibial medial stress syndrome, pregnancy, implanted pacemaker, skin disorder and numbness in the area.
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Intervention groups
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Two different treatment groups. The group treated with tecar therapy and the group treated with the usual physiotherapy.
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Main outcome variables
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Pain intensity, balance, kinetic changes