Investigation of Palpation Pressure Sensitivity

Abant Izzet Baysal University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sensitivity Training Groups

Treatments: Other: Pressure sensitivity education

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06264648

AIBU-FTR-OOP-04

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study is planned for searching physiotherapists palpation abilities. There were 2 groups of physiotherapists. They were asked for to push target pressures. After making some exercise, the assesment was done again.

Full description

2 groups of physiotherapists with different fields of experience were attended to study. Fingers are positioned on the marked area at the center point of the scale. Therapists were asked to apply pressure to the scale with estimated weights of 0.5 kg, 1 kg, 2 kg and 4 kg. In each measurements, the value on the scale was recorded without being shown to the participants. After the measurements, the participants were made to experiment when the digital screen can be seen, in order to teach the physiotherapists how much pressure they applied to reach the target weight. Participants were given a total of 10 minutes for the trials. Then, the digital screen was hidden again, and the therapist was asked to apply 0.5 kg, 1 kg, 2 kg and 4 kg weight in a randomized order and maintain that pressure for 5 seconds. The weight fixed by the therapist for 5 seconds was noted by the researcher; the participant was not informed about the values on the digital screen.

Enrollment: 63 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 22+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Willing to participate,
• Active working patients as a physiotherapists pediatric, neurologic, orthopedic physiotherapy, manual therapy or osteopathy.

Exclusion criteria

• Having a neurological disease (multiple sclerosis, polyneuropathy, etc.) -Having a disease that may cause neurological deficit in the upper extremity (cervical myelopathy, carpal tunnel syndrome, pronator teres syndrome, cubital tunnel syndrome, ---
• Guyon canal syndrome)
• Refuse to participate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Other

Allocation: Non-Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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63 participants in 2 patient groups

Manual Therapy using group

Experimental group

Description:

This group includes physiotherapists that using manual therapy techniques.

Treatment:

Other: Pressure sensitivity education

Non Manual Therapy using

Experimental group

Description:

This group includes physiotherapists using different techniques during working, not manual therapy

Treatment:

Other: Pressure sensitivity education