Mulligan Concept Mobilisation With Movement for Shoulder Dysfunction in Older Adults

Control group intervention is the physiotherapy treatment standard protocol proposed by the Spanish Rheumatology Society for shoulder dysfunction

The internal hand of the physiotherapist stabilises participants´ shoulder girdle and with the thenar eminence of the other hand, performs a posterior-lateral glide of the humeral head. Participants are asked to raise the affected arm in the point of pain onset while the physiotherapist sustains the gliding force to humeral head. The physiotherapist tries to maintain the glide at right angles to the plane of movement throughout the entire range while participants are requested to perform an active elevation. Participants are instructed that the mobilisation procedure, including shoulder movement, had to be pain free