Immediate Effects of Dynamic Cupping on Median Nerve's Mechanosensitivity

NCT04688892 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: FISIO-1-28102019
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 60
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

The purpose oh this study is to verify the immediate effects of dynamic cupping on median nerve's mechanosensitivity, measured by the upper limb neurodynamic test 1 (ULNT1) in healthy participants.

Conditions

Healthy

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• change in elbow extension range of motion

  Data will be collected in two moments: baseline (M0) and after the application of cupping for intervention group or after a resting period for control group (M1). The M0 will consist in performing the ULNT1 on the dominant upper limb for each participant. The participants will remain in a supine position on a massage table with the body aligned, exposing the test forearm for the placement of the smartphone through an armband. The head and cervical spine will be stabilized at the maximum comfortable lateral inclination using a foam pillow. The ULNT1 sequence used was: (1) maximum contralateral cervical inclination; (2) arm at 90º of shoulder abduction preventing scapular elevation; (3) 90º of external rotation of the shoulder and elbow flexion at 90º (defined as the initial position or 0º of range of motion under test); (4) supination of the forearm; (5) wrist and fingers extension; and (6) elbow extension.

  Baseline (M0), Immediately after intervention or control (M1).

Study Arms (2)

Intervention Group

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

The type of cupping therapy will be dry-cupping with moving-cupping (dynamic cupping therapy). The participants will remain in the supine position on a massage table (Posturarte® Olympic), without inclination. Cupping therapy will be performed with a plastic suction cup (5.08 cm in diameter) (K.S. Choi Corp®) and with a pistol for dosing pumps (K.S. Choi Corp®). Prior to the cupping therapy, a small amount of massage cream (ATL®) will be applied throughout the median nerve pathway in order to facilitate the sliding of the suction cup. The cupping therapy will performed with the suction cup sliding with a slow rhythm, insufflation of the suction cup with two pumps for 5 minutes along the median nerve path.

Device: Cupping

Control Group

NO INTERVENTION

The participants will remain at rest in a supine position on a massage table (Posturarte® Olympic) without inclination for 5 minutes.

Interventions

Cupping DEVICE

dynamic cupping

Intervention Group

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years+
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Healthy university students of both genders with normal mobility of the joints of the upper quadrant of the body.

You may not qualify if:

• Deformities in the upper quadrant region of the body;
• Complaints in this region in the last 6 months;
• Surgical procedures or musculoskeletal, cardiac, renal, metabolic, neurological and or oncological pathologies of the upper quadrant that may disturb nerve function;
• Not present any mechanosensitive response to ULNT1;
• Pregnant women;
• Ingestion of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or consumption of any type of narcotic drugs and participants who have drunk alcohol in the last 12 hours.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• University Fernando Pessoa: lead

Study Sites (1)

Ricardo Cardoso

Porto, 4200-253 Porto, Portugal

Location

MeSH Terms

Interventions

Cupping Therapy

Intervention Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Complementary Therapies; Therapeutics

Study Officials

• Ricardo Cardoso, PhD

  Fernando Pessoa University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: PARTICIPANT
• Purpose: HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: Clinical Professor

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: December 3, 2020
• First Posted: December 30, 2020
• Study Start: December 11, 2020
• Primary Completion: December 16, 2020
• Study Completion: December 30, 2020
• Last Updated: September 21, 2021

Record last verified: 2021-09

Locations

PT (1)