Effects of Muscle Fatigue and Kinesio Taping on Shoulder Position Sense

Fatigue Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effects of Muscle Fatigue and Kinesio Taping on Shoulder Joint Position Sense

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02104570
• Other study ID #: 09102013.011
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: March 24, 2014
• Last updated: December 2, 2014
• Start date: February 2014
• Est. completion date: May 2014

Study information

• Verified date: December 2014
• Source: University of Oregon
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of Kinesio Taping on the position sense of shoulder after muscle fatigue.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 24
• Est. completion date: May 2014
• Est. primary completion date: May 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 50 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Healthy participants

Exclusion Criteria:

• prior shoulder surgery

• shoulder injury that required rehabilitation in the last 2 years

• shoulder dislocation

• ligamentous laxity

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Subject), Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Fatigue
• Proprioception

Intervention

Other:
• Kinesio taping with tension

• Kinesio taping without tension

• Fatigue protocol

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	University of Oregon	Eugene	Oregon

Sponsors (2)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
University of Oregon	Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Changes in joint repositioning angle errors	The joint repositioning errors will be measured during active repositioning trials of shoulder abduction in scapular plane using an iPod app.	Baseline (in the beginning of the session, without taping), 5 minutes after taping (or equivalent time resting, in the control session) and average of 3 minutes after fatigue protocol.	No