Efficacy of Instrumental Chiropractic Treatment Using Activator Methods for Pain and Dysfunction in Juvenile Athletes

Medical University of Graz

Status: Completed

Conditions: Knee Sprain; Pain in Leg, Unspecified

Treatments: Device: Activator IV (Activator Methods Int. Phoenix, Arizona)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01449994

Activator in Austria

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of the study is to prove efficacy of instrumental chiropractic treatment for leg pain in juvenile athletes.

A randomized placebo controlled clinical trial including juvenile athletes with functional impairment and pain in thigh, leg or foot is performed.

Hypothesis: Instrumental chiropractic treatment with the "activator instrument "following the "activator methods" diagnostic evaluation should lead to significant improvement of complaints and functional impairment compared to the control group treated by a deactivated instrument following a sham evaluation protocol.

Full description

Pain and functional impairment may force young athletes to interrupt training plans and/or even stay away from competition. Usually elite athletes run through an abundance of tests and diagnostic features-too often these high cost diagnostics don´t provide useful information for treatment. Treating the symptoms in the first place (after ruling out severe pathology) will reduce the need for extensive diagnostic routines and bring athletes back to competition earlier.

In our outpatient department of young elite sportsmen chiropractic instrumental treatment is performed routinely- mostly a pain reduction of 3-4 levels in VAS is achieved within the first session of treatment.

The following study is thought to prove the efficacy of the Chiropractic Instrumental Treatment performed at our sports-medicine outpatient department.

Enrollment: 26 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 10 to 17 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• functional problems in the lower extremities

Exclusion criteria

• severe pathology that requires different treatment

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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26 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Placebo-Activator

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Treatment with Placebo Activator IV

Treatment:

Device: Activator IV (Activator Methods Int. Phoenix, Arizona)

Activator

Active Comparator group

Description:

Treatment with Activator IV adjusting instrument

Treatment:

Device: Activator IV (Activator Methods Int. Phoenix, Arizona)