Simulator of Pompage Technique for Physiotherapists

Musculoskeletal Pain Clinical Trial

Official title:

Simulator of Pompage Technique for Education and Training of Physiotherapists

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02975531
• Other study ID #: 0121.0.237.00007
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: March 9, 2016
• Last updated: November 28, 2016
• Start date: February 2008
• Est. completion date: February 2012

Study information

• Verified date: November 2016
• Source: University of Mogi das Cruzes
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Brazil: National Committee of Ethics in Research
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Parameterize the Pompage technique with an anatomical model cervical region to simulate specific procedures. Quantify the times, displacements, and facilitate the training of students and professional of physical therapy.

Description:

Manual techniques are taught and trained with practical demonstration without technology support to measure them, so they are difficult to reproduce. This difficulty increases in Pompage technique because the student is not able to estimate the displacement on the skin. In this research, to parameterize and train the technique was developed and validated an anatomical model of the cervical region, with silicone and latex rubber. The anatomical model simulates the soft tissues and a plastic resin structure represents the cervical spine bone. An optical sensor was used to measure the displacements performed on simulated skin versus time. The Likert scale was used for assessing the similarity of the anatomical model relative to the size, shape, texture, elasticity and displacement of the skin as well as the curvature of the cervical spine. Five experienced professionals (GP) in the technical performed five series of Pompage technique. With the mean of data collected were determined benchmarks for technical and implemented in a standard guide to train the volunteers. Twenty-six volunteers (GE) with no experience performed the Pompage technique, with the anatomical model following the standard guide. A physical therapist (VE) was selected to evaluate the volunteers (GE) before and after training in the simulator.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 72
• Est. completion date: February 2012
• Est. primary completion date: April 2008
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 60 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• no history of cervical trauma (GT and VF)

• Do not have dermatitis in the cervical region (GT and VF)

• recurrent migraines (GT and VF)

• no prior knowledge of Pompage technique (GE).

• minimum 5 years experience of applying the Pompage technique (GP and VE).

Exclusion Criteria:

• report pain in the cervical region (GT and VF)

• irritations in the cervical region (GT and VF)

Study Design

Allocation: Non-Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Contracture
• Musculoskeletal Pain

Intervention

Other:
• Simulator's construction
Model to build the mold for the simulator
• Model Features
Volunteers to determine the elasticity of the skin and cirtometry neck to compare with the simulator.
• Parameterization technique
Evaluation of the simulator features and parameterization of the Pompage technique in the simulator.
• Simulator training
Training of pompage technique using the simulator.
• Training Evaluation
Evaluation of volunteers from GE group before and after training with the simulator.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Mogi das Cruzes

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Displacement of the skin	The displacement of the skin (mm) of the volunteers VF and GT was measured to validated the simulator. The volunteers GE used the simulator and the displacement of the skin of simulator was measured during the Pompage technique.	5 days	Yes
Primary	Pressure	The volunteers GE used the simulator and the pressure (mm/Hg ) on the simulator was measured during the Pompage technique.	5 days	Yes
Secondary	Cytometry neck	The cytometry neck (cm) of the volunteers VF and GT was measure to validated the simulator.	1 minute	Yes