Stretching and Pain Sensitivity

Stretching Clinical Trial

Official title:

Local and Systemic Changes in Pain Sensitivity After 4 Weeks of Calf Muscle-tendon Stretching: A Randomised Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT02027766
• Other study ID #: 129
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: January 3, 2014
• Last updated: May 5, 2014
• Start date: January 2014
• Est. completion date: April 2014

Study information

• Verified date: May 2014
• Source: Frederiksberg University Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: Denmark: Ethics Committee
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Stretching is frequently used in clinical practice to manage musculoskeletal discomfort and to prevent sports injuries. It is not known if stretching affects pain sensitivity. The purpose of this study is to investigate if a 4 week daily stretching protocol alters pain sensitivity.

The investigators hypothesize that stretching reduces pain sensitivity.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 40
• Est. completion date: April 2014
• Est. primary completion date: April 2014
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 18 Years to 40 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Aged between 18 and 40

• In general good health, in the opinion of the Investigator, based on medical and physical history.

• Speaks, reads and writes Danish language.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Regular use of stretching

• History of surgery to the lower limb(s)

• History of traumatic and overuse injures to the lower limb(s), including but not limited to: Tendinopathies, Bursitis, Muscle injuries, Significant ankle sprains, other ligament injuries

• Hyper mobility syndromes, including but not limited to Ehlers-Danlos syndrome, Generalised hyper mobility syndrome

• History of symptoms of autoimmune disorders (e.g., inflammatory bowel disease, multiple sclerosis, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis).

• Planned surgical procedure during the duration of the study

• History, diagnosis, or signs and symptoms of clinically significant neurological disease, including but not limited to: Stroke or transient ischemic attack, Alzheimer's disease or other types of dementia, Clinically significant head trauma within the past year, Peripheral neuropathy, Epilepsy or seizure, Impaired balance

• Alcohol or drug abuse within the last 5 years

• History, diagnosis, signs or symptoms of any clinically significant psychiatric disorder

• Diabetes

• Subjects with regional pain syndromes suggestive of lumbar compressions with radiculopathy or at risk of developing radiculopathy.

• Any other condition, which in the opinion of the Investigator, would put the subject at increased safety risk or otherwise make the subject unsuitable for this study.

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Basic Science

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Stretching

Intervention

Other:
• Calf muscle stretching

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Denmark	The Parker Institute, Bispebjerg and Frederiksberg University Hospitals	Copenhagen

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Marius Henriksen

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Denmark, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change from baseline in pressure pain threshold (PPT) at the ipsilateral (same side as being stretched) calf assessed by a cuff pressure algometer		Baseline and after 4 weeks	No
Secondary	Change from baseline in PPT at the counter lateral calf		Baseline and 4 weeks	No
Secondary	Change from baseline in PPT at the ipsilateral arm		baseline and 4 weeks	No
Secondary	Change from baseline in temporal summation of pressure pain at both calfs and ipsilateral arm.		Baseline and after 4 weeks	No