Endermotherapy With Burn Hypertrophic Scars

Centre hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CHUM)

Status

Completed

Conditions

Burn Scar

Treatments

Procedure: Endermotherapy

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03697447

15.374

Details and patient eligibility

About

Mechanical massage or endermotherapyTM is applied to scar tissue with the intended therapeutic value being the promotion of structural or physiological changes. These proposed changes are meant to induce more pliability, so that skin possesses the strength and elasticity required for normal mobility. The advantage of mechanical massage compared to manual massage is that it provides a standard dosage using rollers and suction valves to mobilize the tissue. However, research documenting and supporting this effect is lacking. The objective of this proposal is to document the effect of 12 weeks of endermotherapy treatment on hypertrophic scar characteristics, including erythema, pigmentation, pliability, and thickness in adult burn survivors and their subjective evaluation of itch, pain and overall scar outcome through a prospective, randomized, controlled, within-patient, single-blinded study.

Full description

Patients will receive 12 weeks of endermotherapy , 3 times a week.

Enrollment

19 patients

Sex

All

Ages

14+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

females and males, of any race, 14 years or older,
a thermal injury,
at least 3 months post-burn so that the scars will be durable enough to tolerate the proposed forces,
at least 2 scar sites >2.034 mm thick and within 0.5 mm of each other, and
signed the informed patient consent form

Exclusion criteria

subjects who have keloids,
with a diagnosis of psychiatric illness clearly documented in their medical file,
mechanism of injury is an electrical, chemical, or cold injury,
a dermatological conditions in the region of the evaluation site, that may interfere with the study results,
a suspected or known allergy to ultrasound gel,
unable to understand French or English, or
subjects who refuse to give informed consent.