Effects of Specific Thoracic Spine Mobilizations on Muscle Activity in a Healthy Volunteer Population

Muscle Strength Clinical Trial

— RACHI-MOB  

Official title:

Effects of Specific Thoracic Spine Mobilizations on Muscle Activity in a Healthy Volunteer Population

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT06374862
• Other study ID #: PI2024_843_0008
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 28, 2024
• Est. completion date: October 2025

Study information

• Verified date: April 2024
• Source: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens
• Contact: Vicente BELTRAN AIBAR
• Phone: 03 22 45 59 92
• Email: BeltranAibar.Vicente[@]chu-amiens.fr
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

In this study, the investigators will examine the effect of manual therapy on the thoracic spine and its impact on the muscular strength gain of the thoracic extensors. Treatment with manual therapy, as described by Maitland, consists of a specific mobilization of the thoracic spine in the postero-anterior direction on the transverse and spiny processes of the thoracic vertebrae. To ensure the relevance of the measures, and to better control the occurrence of biases inherent to the practice of manual therapy, the investigators constituted three distinct groups: an intervention group, a control group and a group without intervention. In short, this methodology will allow us to explore in detail the effects of specific spinal mobilization on motor control, while taking into account placebo response elements and natural variations in the results

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 156
• Est. completion date: October 2025
• Est. primary completion date: October 2025
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Ages 18 to 65,
• healthy volunteer,
• membership in a social security scheme

Exclusion Criteria:

• Severe spinal trauma within the last 6 months
• history of low back pain, back pain, and/or neck pain within the last 6 months,
• history of spinal surgery,
• history of chronic systemic disease (cardiac, respiratory, diabetes, etc.),
• volunteer with Pacemaker, history of rheumatological pathology (rheumatoid arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, Scheuermann's disease, etc.),
• patient under guardianship,curatorship, safeguard of justice, patient deprived of liberty, pregnant woman and patient without Red Flags Social Security described in literature.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Muscle Strength
• Musculoskeletal Manipulations
• Range of Motion

Intervention

Other:
• mobilization
specific mobilization on neuromuscular functioning, thanks to surface EMG, before and after a specific mobilization of the spine
• no effect
a mobilization identified as "no effect" could modulate neuromuscular activity by a placebo effect.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
France	CHU Amiens Picardie	Amiens	Picardie

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire, Amiens

Country where clinical trial is conducted

France, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	electrical activity assessment of the spine extensor muscles using EMG		1 hour