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NCT Number: NCT07681999

Detection of Early Scapular Dyskinesis

This study is a prospective blind contrast between periscapular muscle thickness measured with MSUS in patients with early AS in comparison to patients with mechanical dyskinesis and to correlate it with EMG findings.

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Key information

Conditions

Scapular Dyskinesis

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Observational

Primary location

Faculty of medicine, Tanta University

Tanta, Egypt

Location status: Recruiting

Location contact

Aliaa Mamdouh Abdelaziz Farag

CONTACT

[email protected]

+201069468486

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • treatment-naïve patients with ankylosing spondylitis (AS), who fulfilled the Assessment of Spondylarthritis Society (ASAS) criteria for axial spondyloarthritis (ax-SpA)
  • Inclusion criterion for the second group (non-AS individuals) was patients complaining of discomfort upon activity.

Exclusion criteria

  • The exclusion criteria of the first group included:
  • patients with a history of local trauma
  • and/or surgical intervention,
  • neuromascular deficits,
  • chronic chest disease and
  • other inflammatory autoimmune/rheumatologic conditions.
  • Exclusion criteria for the second group were:
  • a history of AS or
  • other systemic autoimmune/ rheumatologic disease.

Treatment and study plan

Primary outcomes

  1. periscapular muscle thickness measured with MSUS in patients with early ASversus patients with mechanical dyskinesis

    Time frame: day 1 (At the same time of initial examination)

    contrast between periscapular muscle thickness measured with MSUS in patients with early AS in comparison to patients with mechanical dyskinesis and to correlate it with EMG findings.

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Aliaa Mamdouh Abdelaziz Farag, MD

CONTACT

[email protected]

+201069468486

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Tanta University

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Detection of Early Inflammatory Versus Early Mechanical Scapular Dyskinesis

Important dates

Study start
2026
Primary completion
2026
Study completion
2026
First posted
Jul 2, 2026
Registry last updated
Jul 2, 2026

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