Diathermy Compared With Sham Diathermy in Doms Management

Musculoskeletal Diseases Clinical Trial

Official title:

Diathermy Compared With Sham Diathermy in Doms Management

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Terminated

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02367079
• Other study ID #: StudiFM
• Status: Terminated
• Phase: Phase 4
• First received: January 21, 2015
• Last updated: February 12, 2015
• Start date: April 2014
• Est. completion date: April 2014

Study information

• Verified date: February 2015
• Source: Studi Fisioterapici di Montagna
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Italy: Ethics Committee
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

To investigate the effect of hand massage, switched on diathermy or sham/switched off diathermy on DOMS in a group of athletes suffering DOMS after a ski mountaineering race.

Description:

This study examine DOMS in athletes following a ski mountaineering race, pain measured with numbering pain rating scale NPRS and perceived global improvement (PGIC) after treatment have been measured after a massage treatment, a diathermy treatment and a sham diathermy treatment.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Terminated
• Enrollment: 25
• Est. completion date: April 2014
• Est. primary completion date: April 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 20 Years to 70 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Healthy patients who complaints about D.O.M.S. after a skimountaneering race

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patient who complain of pathology such trauma or declaring consuming drugs for pain management where excluded from the study.

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Factorial Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Musculoskeletal Diseases

Intervention

Device:
• Diathermy
Sham diathermy vs switched on diathermy effect on pain where assessed

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Italy	Studi fisioterapici di Montagna	Aosta

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Studi Fisioterapici di Montagna

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Italy, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Numering pain rating scale	Numering pain rating scale was assessed pre e post treatment	Day 1	Yes