Deep Friction Massage: Symptomatic

Cooperativa de Ensino Superior, Politécnico e Universitário

Status: Completed

Conditions: Tendinopathy

Treatments: Other: DFM: Mean pressure - 25%; Other: DFM: Mean pressure; Other: DFM: Mean pressure + 25%

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03255538

DFM_2

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 or function in the symptomatic patellar tendon. Having this, our objective is to characterize the pressure applied during deep friction massage and evaluate the immediate effects of different pressures applied during deep friction massage in the time until analgesia as well as in function, in patellar tendinopathy.

Enrollment: 10 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The participants should have a symptomatic patellar tendon

Exclusion criteria

• History of other previous injuries of the lower limbs;
• Intake of medication that could interfere with pain mechanisms;
• Presence of any factors or conditions that could interfere 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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10 participants in 4 patient groups

DFM: Mean pressure

Experimental group

Description:

In this group, deep friction massage will be applied with the mean pressure, previously obtained in a baseline assessment.

Treatment:

Other: DFM: Mean pressure

DFM: Mean pressure - 25%

Experimental group

Description:

In this group, deep friction massage will be applied will less 25% of the pressure previously obtained in a baseline assessment.

Treatment:

Other: DFM: Mean pressure - 25%

DFM: Mean pressure +25%

Experimental group

Description:

In this group, deep friction massage will be applied will an increment of 25% of the pressure previously obtained in a baseline assessment.

Treatment:

Other: DFM: Mean pressure + 25%

Control session

No Intervention group

Description:

In this group, the participants will rest for 15 minutes