Electromyographic Biofeedback Muscle Recovery Meniscectomy

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Feedback, Psychological
• Interventions: Other: Electromyographic Biofeedback

• Registration Number: NCT05376072
• Lead Sponsor: Western Norway University of Applied Sciences

Brief Summary

Electromyographic biofeedback (EMG-BF) is a therapeutic technique that has been used success-fully in rehabilitation of injuries. Although it has been applied in athletes, its use in this field is not very widespread. The objective of this study is to analyze its effectiveness in the recovery of electromyographic activity of the quadriceps after meniscectomy, evaluated through isometric contraction of the vastus lateralis. The sample comprised ten professional footballers in the Spanish League (2nd Division A) who had previously suffered a meniscus injury in their knee and had undergone a meniscectomy. The intervention consisted of EMG-BF treatment lasting between 6 and 10 sessions. The electromyographic signal was recorded using a Thought Tech-nology ProComp Infiniti 8-channel biofeedback unit with a sampling rate of 2048 sam-ples/seconds. For each session a within-subject ABA design of 6 or 10 trials per session was used, with three pre- and three post-measures, which determined the gain for each session.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2018-01-01
• Primary Completion: 2018-05-01
• Study Completion: 2018-06-01
• Status Verified: 2022-05
• Study First Submitted: 2022-05-02
• Study First Submitted QC: 2022-05-10
• Last Update Submitted: 2022-05-10
• Study First Posted: 2022-05-17
• Last Update Posted: 2022-05-17

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Male
• Target Recruitment: 10

Inclusion Criteria

• Partial meniscus tear
• Meniscectomy

Exclusion Criteria

• Having an injury other than a partial meniscus tear

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Experimental data	Electromyographic Biofeedback	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Changes in muscle tension level	Each participant performed a total of 10 session during 5 weeks	Using electrommiographic biofeedback device, the increase in muscle tension after isometric contraction was observed.; Each player performed 10 work sessions (2 sessions per week) with EMG-BF. Each session was divided into three phases: (a) three trials without receiving feedback, (b) between six and ten trials with feedback of electromyographic activity, (c) three trials without feedback.; In each trial, isometric contractions of the vastus lateralis were performed. For all sessions, each isometric contraction lasted six seconds and the participants rested for two minutes between trials to recover their contraction capacity. The sampling rate was 2048 samples per second.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Antonio Hernández Mendo; 🇪🇸 Málaga, Spain