Deep Friction Massage: Symptomatic

Tendinopathy Clinical Trial

Official title:

Deep Friction Massage Effects on Pain and Function in Patellar Tendinopathy

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03255538
• Other study ID #: DFM_2
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: August 18, 2017
• Last updated: March 5, 2018
• Start date: August 21, 2017
• Est. completion date: November 20, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: March 2018
• Source: Cooperativa de Ensino Superior, Politécnico e Universitário
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Despite DFM being a widely-used technique and the empirical grounding regarding the importance of the pressure applied, there is no study characterizing the pressure applied during DFM, remaining it a discretion of the physiotherapist. Additionally, it is not known how the amount of pressure applied may influence pain mechanisms or function in the symptomatic patellar tendon. Having this, our objective is to characterize the pressure applied during deep friction massage and evaluate the immediate effects of different pressures applied during deep friction massage in the time until analgesia as well as in function, in patellar tendinopathy.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 10
• Est. completion date: November 20, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: November 20, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 40 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• The participants should have a symptomatic patellar tendon

Exclusion Criteria:

• History of other previous injuries of the lower limbs;

• Intake of medication that could interfere with pain mechanisms;

• Presence of any factors or conditions that could interfere with the awareness and sensibility to pain.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Tendinopathy

Intervention

Other:
• DFM: Mean pressure
Deep friction massage as described by Dr. James Cyriax, performed with the mean pressure previously obtained in a baseline assessment.
• DFM: Mean pressure - 25%
Deep friction massage as described by Dr. James Cyriax, performed with the mean pressure previously obtained in a baseline assessment decremented by 25%.
• DFM: Mean pressure + 25%
Deep friction massage as described by Dr. James Cyriax, performed with the mean pressure previously obtained in a baseline assessment incremented by 25%.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Portugal	Cooperativa Ensino Superior Politécnico e Universitário	Gandra	Paredes

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Cooperativa de Ensino Superior, Politécnico e Universitário

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Portugal, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Time until analgesia	Time until self reported sensation of analgesia, controlled by a chronometer, since the application of deep friction massage.	10 minutes
Primary	Numeric Pain Rating Scale	Self-reported pain intensity.	20 minutes
Primary	Maximal isometric strength of quadriceps	Measure of maximal isometric strength, through a dynamometer.	20 minutes
Primary	Knee flexion range of movement	Measure of knee flexion range of movement, through a goniometer	20 minutes