Efficacy of Stretching on Pain Sensitivity

University College of Northern Denmark

Status

Completed

Conditions

Pain Threshold

Treatments

Other: Stretch exercises

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04919681

UniversityCND3

Details and patient eligibility

About

The primary objective of this study is to determine the immediate efficiency of a six weeks regular stretching protocol on regional and distant pain sensitivity. It is hypothesised that regional and distant pain sensitivity will significantly decrease following six weeks of regular stretching.

The secondary objective of the study is to determine the effect after four-week cessation of the stretching protocol on regional and distant pain sensitivity. If regional and distant pain sensitivity decrease following regular stretching, it is hypothesised that the analgesic effect will abate following four-week cessation.

Enrollment

26 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 65 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Healthy men and women aged 18-65 years are recruited. As part of the screening, volunteers will also be asked to indicate known medical issues or diseases. Participants are included if they have no known medical conditions such as
cognitive impairments,
neurological,
orthopaedic,
or neuromuscular problems that might affect the somatosensory system or preclude stretching exercises or range of motion testing at the knee.

Exclusion criteria

Individuals who regularly engage in flexibility training (e.g., stretching, tai chi, pilates or yoga)
or use any medication that might affect the somatosensory system, such as pain medication, are excluded.