Metatarsophalangeal Joint Sprain Kinesiotaping

Qassim University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Turf Toe; Metatarsophalangeal (Joint) Sprain

Treatments: Other: Traditional physical therapy program; Other: placebo Kinsio taping; Other: Kinsio taping

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05982431

RHPT/0021/0063

Details and patient eligibility

About

kinesio taping would reduce pain, improve gait performance, and enhance the functional capacity of turf toe patients undergoing physical therapy

Full description

Health practitioners have recently become interested in using kinesiology taping in clinical practice as an alternative to traditional taping and bracing procedures for treating a variety of diseases, including sprain of metatarsophalangeal joint of the big toe. Patients with turf toe can benefit from kinesiology tape because it offers therapeutic support and stability while preserving a normal range of motion.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 30 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• comprised athletes with 2nd grade turf toe.
• medically stable.
• had foot pain for more than a month prior to enrollment.
• didn't have persistent, incapacitating pain.
• had a doctor's note approving their decision to stop taking painkillers during the research.

Exclusion criteria

• if they had any surgical intervention before.
• range of motion limitation in the ankle joint.
• inability to exercise.
• systemic disease.
• any other orthopedic problem at ankle joints.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 3 patient groups

exercise group

Experimental group

Description:

60-minutes exercise program, three times a week on alternate days for 12 successive weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Traditional physical therapy program

placebo kinesiology taping plus exercise group

Experimental group

Description:

Kinesiology taping was used, however the strain was zero. Before each exercise session, the tape was changed every two days while the patients were present.

Treatment:

Other: placebo Kinsio taping

Other: Traditional physical therapy program

kinesiology taping plus exercise group

Experimental group

Description:

putting no stress on the opposite end and a 50% stretch from the top of the big toe to the heel along the back of the heel. After applying a 50% stretch from the top of the big toe to the second horizontal little strip between the big toe and second toe, place the ends below the toe diagonally with no stress.

Treatment:

Other: Kinsio taping

Other: Traditional physical therapy program