Effect of Physical Activity Following Thoracic Mobilization on Heart Rate Variability and Pressure Pain Threshold.

Federal University of Health Science of Porto Alegre

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Procedure: Physical activity plus thoracic mobilization; Procedure: Physical activity; Procedure: Placebo

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02543008

FUHSPortoAlegre_II

Details and patient eligibility

About

Comparison of the effects of physical activity (treadmill running) plus thoracic mobilization, physical activity only or a placebo intervention (only manual contact thoracic mobilization), on heart rate variability and pressure pain threshold.

Enrollment: 34 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Asymptomatic subjects
• Sedentary

Exclusion criteria

• Spinal pain
• Historic of trauma/surgery to the spine
• Diabetes
• Hypo/hyperthyroidism
• Alcoholic
• Smoker
• Hypertension

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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34 participants in 3 patient groups, including a placebo group

Physical activity plus thoracic mobilization

Experimental group

Description:

Subjects randomly allocated to this arm will be submitted to a 10 minutes anaerobic exercise (2 minutes warming up, 5 minutes of 75% to 85% maximal heat rate, 3 minutes slowdown), followed by 5 minutes of passive intervertebral thoracic mobilization (3 sets of 1 minute, grade III, and 1 minute rest between each set).

Treatment:

Procedure: Physical activity plus thoracic mobilization

Physical activity

Active Comparator group

Description:

Subjects allocated to this arm will be submitted to the same anaerobic exercise protocol, without the thoracic mobilization.

Treatment:

Procedure: Physical activity

Placebo

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Subjects in this group will be conducted to a placebo thoracic mobilization, without anaerobic exercise protocol. The investigator will apply only a manual contact, to mimic the genuine thoracic mobilization. The same 5 minutes period will be respected, and the same position of therapist and subject.

Treatment:

Procedure: Placebo