The Influence of a "Cooling Ice Spray " Application on the Time to Stability After a Forward Jump?

Swanenburg

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy

Treatments: Other: Cooling Ice Spray; Other: water

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01961596

Balgrist 2013-0359

KEK-ZH-Nr. 2013-0359 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to investigate the influence of a brief application of cold (by means of Cooling Ice Spray on the lateral ankle)on the time to stabilization of healthy subjects.

Full description

In sports are "Cooling Ice Spray" applications after an injuries one of the most common and popular methods used. It is very popular mainly because of its analgesic effect and easy application. It is assumed that such application will not affect the athletes. Nevertheless after an application of cold a reduced nerve conduction velocity was measured, resulting in a reduction in pain and a reduced transmission rate. Usually the static equilibrium or the perception of joint position was investigated and not the time to stability. As far as we have been known so far been no study that has examined the impact of a brief application of cooling ice spray on the time to stability after dynamic function. Therefore this study what's to investigate the influence of "Cooling Ice Spray" on the time to stability after a forward jump.

Enrollment: 22 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 45 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• healthy adults
• 18-45 age
• >3 Score "Tegner-Activity-Scale"

Exclusion criteria

• Cognitive deficits
• Physical disability
• Pain
• Injuries in the previous 6 weeks
• Non healed injuries at the leg
• Allergic reaction from cooling ice pray

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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22 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

cooling ice

Experimental group

Description:

A bursts of the "Cooling Ice Spray" over a period of 10 seconds (15 cm distance) will be applied at the dominant foot in before each test. After 2 days the measurements will be repeated with the other application.

Treatment:

Other: Cooling Ice Spray

water

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

A bursts of the water spray (room temperature over a period of 10 seconds (15 cm distance) will be applied at the dominant foot in before each test. After 2 days the measurements will be repeated with the other application.

Treatment:

Other: water