The Effect of Ankle Taping and Balance Exercises on Postural Stability

Zahedan University of Medical Sciences

Status: Completed

Conditions: Proprioceptive Disorders; Disturbance; Balance, Labyrinth

Treatments: Other: Balance exercise and ankle taping

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01730859

90-2339

Details and patient eligibility

About

Both taping and balance exercises have effects on dynamic balance, so this study compared ankle taping and balance exercise on postural stability indices in healthy women. we hypothesized that both balance exercise and taping would increase stability indices but the effects of balance exercise was more greater than taping.

Full description

The ability to control the body in the space is a complex interaction between musculoskeletal and neural systems. This set is called postural control system. Postural control involves the control of body position in space for the dual purposes of postural stability and postural orientation. Balance process is divided into four-stage by Sullivan and Markos: mobility, stability, controlled mobility, and skill. Several types of exercise have been proposed to improve proprioception. Bout and Gahery stated that balance exercises improve neuromuscular relations and reduces the proprioception errors. They believe that those who have more proprioception difficulty may benefit more from exercise therapy.Taping is another technique to enhance proprioception. Improvement in proprioception leads to better function and reduction of disability. Kinesiotaping is being used to prevent injuries and to help curing the injury. It can also improve efficiency in sport, improve lymph and venous circulation, decrease edema, stimulate the mechanoreceptors and increase awareness of subject about the ankle position, reduces the pain and improves muscle performance

Enrollment: 30 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 19 to 22 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• having no pain in ankle joint, not having sport activity in the period of this study, healthy sensory motor function in lower limb, no history of neuromuscular disease, vertigo or any uncorrected visual problems, any kind of ankle injury or lower limb surgery, taking sedative medication, cardiovascular, neurologic, and pulmonary disease, balance problems, rheumatoid disease, psychological disease, body mass index between 17 to25.

Exclusion criteria

• ankle pain, allergy to tape, and not completing all interventional sessions.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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30 participants in 1 patient group

Balance exrercise and ankle taping

Experimental group

Description:

Balance Exercises:Balance exercises for 6 weeks, 3 sessions per week and each session was 40 minutes for training group. Ankle taping: Ankle joint taping was performed for 6 weeks and was renewed three times a week.

Treatment:

Other: Balance exercise and ankle taping