Fascial Tissue Response to Manual Therapy: Implications in Long COVID-19

University of the State of Santa Catarina

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: COVID-19

Treatments: Other: Guidebook; Other: Guidebook and Myofascial Reorganization® (RMF).

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06348186

Fascial Tissue Response

Details and patient eligibility

About

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), as of mid-September 2022, more than 21 million Brazilians have recovered from COVID-19. However, post-infection symptoms continue to appear months after the end of the acute infection, a syndrome called long COVID. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the responses of fascia-focused manual therapy in participants with long COVID.

Full description

Participants reported to have long COVID, of both sexes, aged between 20 and 80 years, from the community, outpatient clinics and hospitals will be evaluated. The treatment of participants will be carried out at the CEFID-UDESC Physiotherapy School Clinic, where they will undergo assessment of the biomechanical and viscoelastic properties of tissues, postural control, pain and quality of life. For normality analysis, the Shapiro-Wilk test will be applied, and according to the distribution of the data, parametric or non-parametric tests will be used. Pre- and post-assessment and treatment data will be compared using descriptive statistics and Student's t-test with a significance level of p=0.05 for parametric data or Wilcoxon for non-parametric data.

Enrollment: 30 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Participants diagnosed with long COVID, of both sexes, aged between 20 and 80 years, from the community, outpatient clinics and hospitals.

Exclusion criteria

• Participants with suspected deep vein thrombosis; Participants with neurological disorders.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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30 participants in 2 patient groups

Guidebook

Other group

Treatment:

Other: Guidebook

Guidebook and Myofascial Reorganization® (RMF).

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: Guidebook and Myofascial Reorganization® (RMF).