Kinesiotape Tensiomyography in Low Back Region

Low Back Pain Clinical Trial

Official title:

Tensiomyography Effects of the Kinesiotape Tension in the Muscular Stiffness of the Low Back Region

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02735408
• Other study ID #: P2015/35RM
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: Phase 1
• First received: December 18, 2015
• Last updated: April 6, 2016
• Start date: October 2015
• Est. completion date: September 2016

Study information

• Verified date: April 2016
• Source: Universidad Europea de Madrid
• Contact: Mónica García, PT,MSc
• Email: monica.garcia.ftp[@]gmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: SPAIN: European University Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Lumbar pain is a quite prevalent pathology in general population within general and sporting population, which comes to mean high sanitary and sport costs. This concrete pain´s nature is often unspecific, but it seems that one of the main risk factors that predispose to suffer from it are changes in the paravertebral-lumbar musculature stiffness.

Since one decade approximately, it has proliferated, especially within sportsmen and women the use of a therapeutic technique: the neuromuscular bandage best known as Kinesiotape (KT). This treatment seems to accept different applications, despite there´s still a lack of scientific evidence for several of its supposed effects. One of the theories about its use technique is that the bandage strain generates different effects in musculature stiffness. Thus, when the bandage is applied over the skin with a pre-stretching of the elastic bandage, it can cause arise of stiffness and strength muscle empowerment. On the other hand, if the bandage is applied without strain, the opposite result would appear, relaxation and strength muscle decrease.

For trainers and therapists is important to know if the KT effect differs over the bandage technique, since the application could be different according to the specific troubles reported by the athletes. For example, talking about cyclists, who keep constantly a hold rachis lumbar flexion, could be interesting to normalize the lumbar musculature stiffness, by placing the bandage with certain strain to achieve a mechanic effect. Nevertheless, talking about other sports like weightlifting, the bandage effect should be the stiffness arisen as a preventive measure, for avoiding injuries derived from the lack of motor control in the lumbar region. These lumbar-region muscle problems affect to popular and majority sports like football, so lumbar pain is very frequently reported by football players, normally due to an agonist-antagonist musculature unbalance. In all these terms, the use of KT would be interesting in order to reduce the musculature strain degree.

Tensiomyography (TMG) is showing as one of the most useful and reliable instrument for the musculature stiffness assessing, due to its velocity, harmlessness, sensing and high reproducibility. Taking in consideration that the maximum deformity measured by the TMG is inversely related with the muscle stiffness, and whereas this project pretends to modify that stiffness by means of the KT application, it seems obvious that TMG is the most suitable measurement instrument.

All these precedents considered, the present project pretends to analyze the effects of different KT strain application along 48 hours with strains techniques of 100%, strain 50% and strain 0% in the normalization of the paravertebral-lumbar musculature stiffness, by means of TMG monitoring.

Description:

Lumbar pain is a quite prevalent pathology in general population within general and sporting population, which comes to mean high sanitary and sport costs. This concrete pain´s nature is often unspecific, but it seems that one of the main risk factors that predispose to suffer from it are changes in the paravertebral-lumbar musculature stiffness.

Since one decade approximately, it has proliferated, especially within sportsmen and women the use of a therapeutic technique: the neuromuscular bandage best known as Kinesiotape (KT). This treatment seems to accept different applications, despite there´s still a lack of scientific evidence for several of its supposed effects. One of the theories about its use technique is that the bandage strain generates different effects in musculature stiffness. Thus, when the bandage is applied over the skin with a pre-stretching of the elastic bandage, it can cause arise of stiffness and strength muscle empowerment. On the other hand, if the bandage is applied without strain, the opposite result would appear, relaxation and strength muscle decrease.

For trainers and therapists is important to know if the KT effect differs over the bandage technique, since the application could be different according to the specific troubles reported by the athletes. For example, talking about cyclists, who keep constantly a hold rachis lumbar flexion, could be interesting to normalize the lumbar musculature stiffness, by placing the bandage with certain strain to achieve a mechanic effect. Nevertheless, talking about other sports like weightlifting, the bandage effect should be the stiffness arisen as a preventive measure, for avoiding injuries derived from the lack of motor control in the lumbar region. These lumbar-region muscle problems affect to popular and majority sports like football, so lumbar pain is very frequently reported by football players, normally due to an agonist-antagonist musculature unbalance. In all these terms, the use of KT would be interesting in order to reduce the musculature strain degree.

Tensiomyography (TMG) is showing as one of the most useful and reliable instrument for the musculature stiffness assessing, due to its velocity, harmlessness, sensing and high reproducibility. Taking in consideration that the maximum deformity measured by the TMG is inversely related with the muscle stiffness, and whereas this project pretends to modify that stiffness by means of the KT application, it seems obvious that TMG is the most suitable measurement instrument.

All these precedents considered, the present project pretends to analyze the effects of different KT strain application along 48 hours with strains techniques of 100%, strain 50% and strain 0% in the normalization of the paravertebral-lumbar musculature stiffness, by means of TMG monitoring.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 50
• Est. completion date: September 2016
• Est. primary completion date: September 2016
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 25 Years to 65 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Subjets without exclusion criteria

• Workers from UEM

Exclusion Criteria:

• Low back conditions

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Bandages
• Low Back Pain
• Muscle Tonus

Intervention

Other:
• Kinesiotape (KT)

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Spain	Universidad Europea	Madrid
Spain	Universidad Europea	Madrid

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Universidad Europea de Madrid

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Spain, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Tensiomyography changes (seconds): Delay time (Td) ; Contraction time (Tc) ; Sustain time (Ts) ; Relaxation time (Tr)	Delay time (Td) as a time between the electrical impulse and 10% of the contraction; Contraction time (Tc) as a time between 10% and 90% of the contraction; Sustain time (Ts) as a time between 50% of the contraction and 50% of the relaxation; Relaxation time (Tr) as a time between 90% and 50% of the relaxation.	4 Weeks	Yes