Deep Friction Massage Effects: Asymptomatic

Deep Friction Massage Clinical Trial

— DFM_Asymp  

Official title:

Deep Friction Massage Effects on Analgesia of the Asymptomatic Patellar Tendon

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03255525
• Other study ID #: DFM_1
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: August 18, 2017
• Last updated: August 18, 2017
• Start date: July 26, 2017
• Est. completion date: August 16, 2017

Study information

• Verified date: August 2017
• 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 and, consequently how it affects the time needed promote an analgesic response.

Having this, our general objective is to establish a dose-response relationship between the pressure applied during DFM and time of onset of analgesia, in the asymptomatic patellar tendon.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 30
• Est. completion date: August 16, 2017
• Est. primary completion date: August 16, 2017
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 30 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• the participants should have an asymptomatic patellar tendon

Exclusion Criteria:

• history of previous injury of the lower limbs;

• intake of medication that could interfere with pain mechanisms;

• presence of any factors or conditions that could interfere with the tendinous tissue as well as with the awareness and sensibility to pain.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Deep Friction Massage

Intervention

Other:
• Deep friction massage P50
Deep friction massage as described by Dr. James Cyriax, applied with the mean pressure (P50)
• Deep friction massage P25
Deep friction massage as described by Dr. James Cyriax, applied with the percentile 25 of the mean pressure (P25)
• Deep friction massage P75
Deep friction massage as described by Dr. James Cyriax, applied with the percentile 75 of the mean pressure (P75)

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	Self reported sensation of analgesia, controlled by a chronometer	10 minutes