Investigating the internal validity of the Bunkie test by measuring muscle activity of the dorsal kinetic chain’s muscles during a standardized and the original versio
- Conditions
- Healthy Participants, Validity of the Bunkie test via EMG-measurement of the muscle activity
- Registration Number
- DRKS00023711
- Lead Sponsor
- Professur für Konservative und Rehabilitative Orthopädie, Technische Universität München
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 23
Inclusion Criteria
We include healthy men and women between 18 and 30 years.
Exclusion Criteria
Participants are excluded if they suffer from current musculoskeletal pain in the shoulder girdle, elbows, back, lower extremity or from other nonspecific musculoskeletal disorders, e.g. fibromyalgia. There must not be any history of surgery in the back or legs and no other orthopaedic injury of the back or the lower extremity in the last twelve months. In addition, participants are excluded if they are pregnant, in the nursing period, diagnosed with any psychiatric, endocrine, neurological as well as metabolic disorder or take medication that affects perception or proprioception.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method - Bunkie test performance (in seconds) in a standardized- and the original version (one measurement, randomized order)<br>- Muscle activity (EMG): Measured during the two versions of the Bunkie test
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method - subjektive level of exhaustion (BORG)<br>- subjective rating of the location with the highest muscle exertion (NRS)