Kinesiotape Tensiomyography in Low Back Region
Tensiomyography Effects of the Kinesiotape Tension in the Muscular Stiffness of the Low Back Region
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Brief Summary
Lumbar pain is a quite prevalent pathology in general population within general and sporting population, which comes to mean high sanitary and sport costs. This concrete pain´s nature is often unspecific, but it seems that one of the main risk factors that predispose to suffer from it are changes in the paravertebral-lumbar musculature stiffness. Since one decade approximately, it has proliferated, especially within sportsmen and women the use of a therapeutic technique: the neuromuscular bandage best known as Kinesiotape (KT). This treatment seems to accept different applications, despite there´s still a lack of scientific evidence for several of its supposed effects. One of the theories about its use technique is that the bandage strain generates different effects in musculature stiffness. Thus, when the bandage is applied over the skin with a pre-stretching of the elastic bandage, it can cause arise of stiffness and strength muscle empowerment. On the other hand, if the bandage is applied without strain, the opposite result would appear, relaxation and strength muscle decrease. For trainers and therapists is important to know if the KT effect differs over the bandage technique, since the application could be different according to the specific troubles reported by the athletes. For example, talking about cyclists, who keep constantly a hold rachis lumbar flexion, could be interesting to normalize the lumbar musculature stiffness, by placing the bandage with certain strain to achieve a mechanic effect. Nevertheless, talking about other sports like weightlifting, the bandage effect should be the stiffness arisen as a preventive measure, for avoiding injuries derived from the lack of motor control in the lumbar region. These lumbar-region muscle problems affect to popular and majority sports like football, so lumbar pain is very frequently reported by football players, normally due to an agonist-antagonist musculature unbalance. In all these terms, the use of KT would be interesting in order to reduce the musculature strain degree. Tensiomyography (TMG) is showing as one of the most useful and reliable instrument for the musculature stiffness assessing, due to its velocity, harmlessness, sensing and high reproducibility. Taking in consideration that the maximum deformity measured by the TMG is inversely related with the muscle stiffness, and whereas this project pretends to modify that stiffness by means of the KT application, it seems obvious that TMG is the most suitable measurement instrument. All these precedents considered, the present project pretends to analyze the effects of different KT strain application along 48 hours with strains techniques of 100%, strain 50% and strain 0% in the normalization of the paravertebral-lumbar musculature stiffness, by means of TMG monitoring.
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participants targeted
Target at P50-P75 for phase_1
Started Oct 2015
2 active sites
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Study Timeline
Key milestones and dates
Study Start
First participant enrolled
October 1, 2015
CompletedFirst Submitted
Initial submission to the registry
December 18, 2015
CompletedFirst Posted
Study publicly available on registry
April 12, 2016
CompletedPrimary Completion
Last participant's last visit for primary outcome
September 1, 2016
CompletedStudy Completion
Last participant's last visit for all outcomes
September 1, 2016
CompletedApril 12, 2016
April 1, 2016
11 months
December 18, 2015
April 6, 2016
Conditions
Outcome Measures
Primary Outcomes (1)
Tensiomyography changes (seconds): Delay time (Td) ; Contraction time (Tc) ; Sustain time (Ts) ; Relaxation time (Tr)
Delay time (Td) as a time between the electrical impulse and 10% of the contraction; Contraction time (Tc) as a time between 10% and 90% of the contraction; Sustain time (Ts) as a time between 50% of the contraction and 50% of the relaxation; Relaxation time (Tr) as a time between 90% and 50% of the relaxation.
4 Weeks
Study Arms (4)
100% KT Tension
EXPERIMENTAL100% KT Tension
50% KT Tension
EXPERIMENTAL50% KT Tension
0% KT Tension
EXPERIMENTAL0% KT Tension
Control (Without KT)
NO INTERVENTIONControl (Without KT)
Interventions
Eligibility Criteria
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- Workers from UEM
- Low back conditions
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Sponsors & Collaborators
Study Sites (2)
Universidad Europea
Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Universidad Europea
Madrid, Madrid, Spain
MeSH Terms
Conditions
Interventions
Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)
Central Study Contacts
Study Design
- Study Type
- interventional
- Phase
- phase 1
- Allocation
- RANDOMIZED
- Masking
- DOUBLE
- Who Masked
- PARTICIPANT, INVESTIGATOR
- Purpose
- TREATMENT
- Intervention Model
- CROSSOVER
- Sponsor Type
- OTHER
- Responsible Party
- PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
- PI Title
- MSc,PT
Study Record Dates
First Submitted
December 18, 2015
First Posted
April 12, 2016
Study Start
October 1, 2015
Primary Completion
September 1, 2016
Study Completion
September 1, 2016
Last Updated
April 12, 2016
Record last verified: 2016-04