Percussive Therapy Reduced EMG Activity During Calf Raise in Limbs With and Without Chronic Ankle Instability

NCT06343207 | Completed

• 1 other identifier: 249637
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 39
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

To examine the acute effect of percussive therapy on peak calf muscle activation during standing heel raise in subjects with and without chronic ankle instability (CAI).

Conditions

Ankle Injuries

Keywords

surface electromyography; ankle injury; lower limb injury

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• Percussive Therapy Reduced EMG Activity During Calf Raise in Limbs With and Without Chronic Ankle Instability.

  Recorded and filtered sEMG data by Trigno Sensors (Delsys Inc., Natick, USA) underwent rectification to absolute values and enveloped by window length (root mean squared; RMS) of 200 ms (Farfan et al., 2010). For EMG activation normalization of DOM and NON lower limb individually, peak RMS muscle activity during flamingo tests (for dominant and nondominant individually) was used and applied to represent the mean RMS in percentages of sEMG activity during each test and each lower limb (%RMSmax).

  1 week

Study Arms (4)

CAI PT

EXPERIMENTAL

Chronic ankle instability patient + percussive therapy intervention

Device: Percussive massage gun therapy

CAI NOPT

NO INTERVENTION

Chronic ankle instability patient + NO percussive therapy intervention (control)

CON PT

EXPERIMENTAL

Healthy subjects + percussive therapy intervention

Device: Percussive massage gun therapy

CON NOPT

NO INTERVENTION

Healthy subjects + NO percussive therapy intervention

Interventions

Percussive massage gun therapy DEVICE

Between pre and post-test, there was a one and half minute period during which each participant were in a prone position on a medical examination bed. The experimental PT groups received a 30-second triceps surae massage on each limb, while the control group maintained the same prone position without massage. The massage gun was set to 2100bpm and 1 bar of surface pressure was indicated by the device. The massage gun movement was performed according to the manufactu'er's instructions.

Also known as: TheraGun

CAI PT; CON PT

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 30 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64)

You may qualify if:

• CAI group - at least two ankle luxation or ankle distortions in the last 2 years as reported by a physician.
• Healthy group - healthy

You may not qualify if:

• paraplegia,
• women in advanced stages of pregnancy
• feverish or acute inflammatory diseases within 7 days before the measurement
• current or healed rupture of m. gastrocnemius, m. soleus, tendo calcaneus
• purulent, fungal diseases, burns, scalds, varices

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Charles University, Czech Republic: lead

Study Sites (1)

Faculty of physical education and sport, Charles University

Prague, 16252, Czechia

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Ankle Injuries; Leg Injuries

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Wounds and Injuries

Study Officials

• Lukas Michal, MSc.

  Department of Pathophysiology, Charles University, Second Faculty of Medicine

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: INVESTIGATOR
• Purpose: BASIC SCIENCE
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: MSc. Lukas Michal

Model Details: A Randomized Controlled Trial

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: March 21, 2024
• First Posted: April 2, 2024
• Study Start: November 22, 2022
• Primary Completion: February 2, 2023
• Study Completion: February 2, 2023
• Last Updated: April 2, 2024

Record last verified: 2024-03

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

CZ (1)