Immediate Effects of Dynamic Cupping on Median Nerve's Mechanosensitivity, Measured by the Upper Limb Neurodynamic Test 1 (ULNT1) in Healthy Participants: A Randomized Controlled Trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 入组人数
- 60
- 试验地点
- 2
- 主要终点
- change in elbow extension range of motion
研究概览
简要总结
The purpose oh this study is to verify the immediate effects of dynamic cupping on median nerve's mechanosensitivity, measured by the upper limb neurodynamic test 1 (ULNT1) in healthy participants.
详细描述
After completing the socio-demographic and clinical questionnaire, the participants will be randomly assigned into two designated groups, the Intervention Group (IG; n = 30) (dynamic cupping therapy throughout the median nerve course) and the Control Group (CG; n = 30) (remained at rest for 5 minutes), using the software www.graphpad.com/quickcals.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Health Services Research
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 —（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 是
入选标准
- •Healthy university students of both genders with normal mobility of the joints of the upper quadrant of the body.
排除标准
- •Deformities in the upper quadrant region of the body;
- •Complaints in this region in the last 6 months;
- •Surgical procedures or musculoskeletal, cardiac, renal, metabolic, neurological and or oncological pathologies of the upper quadrant that may disturb nerve function;
- •Not present any mechanosensitive response to ULNT1;
- •Pregnant women;
- •Ingestion of non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or consumption of any type of narcotic drugs and participants who have drunk alcohol in the last 12 hours.
结局指标
主要结局
change in elbow extension range of motion
时间窗: Baseline (M0), Immediately after intervention or control (M1).
Data will be collected in two moments: baseline (M0) and after the application of cupping for intervention group or after a resting period for control group (M1). The M0 will consist in performing the ULNT1 on the dominant upper limb for each participant. The participants will remain in a supine position on a massage table with the body aligned, exposing the test forearm for the placement of the smartphone through an armband. The head and cervical spine will be stabilized at the maximum comfortable lateral inclination using a foam pillow. The ULNT1 sequence used was: (1) maximum contralateral cervical inclination; (2) arm at 90º of shoulder abduction preventing scapular elevation; (3) 90º of external rotation of the shoulder and elbow flexion at 90º (defined as the initial position or 0º of range of motion under test); (4) supination of the forearm; (5) wrist and fingers extension; and (6) elbow extension.
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Ricardo Cardoso
Clinical Professor
University Fernando Pessoa