Efficacy of Kinesio Taping in Musculoskeletal Neck Pain

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Musculoskeletal Neck Pain

Treatments: Other: Kinesio taping; Other: Conventional bandage

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04916366

18/133-E_TFG

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to compare efficacy of Kinesio taping against a conventional tape in a patient with cervical musculoskeletal pain. For this, a double-blind controlled clinical trial be carried out in patients with musculoskeletal neck pain.

Full description

During the months of May to July 2021, a research assistant will contact potential participants who will be invited to participate in this study. Once they agree to participate, it will schedule for a face-to-face consultation at the university, where the main researcher will inform the study participants. Once the information sheet and informed consent will be a sign, an investigator will carry out the measurements of the variables for initial data collection in the first session. In another room, an expertise physiotherapist with experience in applying Kinesio taping will perform interventions on patients on the same day as the initial evaluation. It this way, the investigator that will assess outcomes will be blind to the treatment that each patient will receive.

At the second consultation, 4 days after the first, the same physiotherapist who applied the bandage will remove it from the patients who received it and any remains of the bandage on the skin were cleaned. For patients in the control group (nothing apply), it will be the same protocol to alter, not the double-blind. The principal investigator will perform the evaluations and data collection without knowing the intervention the patient will receive.

In a third consultation, as a follow-up (30 days after the second consultation), the collection of the same measurements and clinical variables from the patients who completed the process will repeat by the same investigator that did the outcomes' assessment.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 30 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Presence of myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) and myofascial trigger point (MTP) in the upper trapezius muscle, according to the diagnostic criteria proposed by the American Academy of Pain Medicine(2) and the scientific community (3) a) tender point on palpation, with or without referred pain b) patient recognizes pain during tender point palpation c) at least three of the following: muscle stiffness or muscle spasm, limited range of motion in an associated joint, increase of pain with stress, palpation of tight band and / or nodule, associated with a tender point
• understand written Spanish.

Exclusion criteria

• Neck pain of traumatic origin, due to recent surgery or causing radiculopathy
• Have been diagnosed with chronic pathology, as well as neoplastic or suspicion of it
• Have received some type of pharmacological or non-pharmacological analgesic treatment in the last 30 days.
• Pregnant or menstrual women

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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60 participants in 3 patient groups, including a placebo group

Kinesio taping

Experimental group

Description:

In this arm, patients will be treated with blue Kinesio taping in a muscle relaxation position during 4 days.

Treatment:

Other: Kinesio taping

Placebo

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

In this arm, patients will be treated with conventional bandage in a muscle relaxation position during 4 days.

Treatment:

Other: Conventional bandage

Control

No Intervention group

Description:

In this arm, patients will be not treated but the outcomes will be measure after 4 days.