Deep Friction Massage Effects: Asymptomatic (DFM_Asymp)

Cooperativa de Ensino Superior, Politécnico e Universitário

Status: Completed

Conditions: Deep Friction Massage

Treatments: Other: Deep friction massage P50; Other: Deep friction massage P25; Other: Deep friction massage P75

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03255525

DFM_1

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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30 participants in 3 patient groups

Deep friction massage P50

Active Comparator group

Description:

In this group it was applied a pressure previously found to be the mean pressure applied by physiotherapists during deep friction massage.

Treatment:

Other: Deep friction massage P50

Deep friction massage P25

Experimental group

Description:

In this group it was applied the percentile 25, of the pressure previously found to be the mean pressure applied by physiotherapists during deep friction massage.

Treatment:

Other: Deep friction massage P25

Deep friction massage P75

Experimental group

Description:

In this group it was applied the percentile 75, of the pressure previously found to be the mean pressure applied by physiotherapists during deep friction massage.

Treatment:

Other: Deep friction massage P75