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

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Healthy
• Interventions: Other: water; Other: Cooling Ice Spray

• Registration Number: NCT01961596
• Lead Sponsor: Swanenburg

Brief Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2013-10
• Study First Submitted: 2013-10-08
• Study First Submitted QC: 2013-10-10
• Study First Posted: 2013-10-11
• Primary Completion: 2014-02
• Study Completion: 2014-03
• Status Verified: 2016-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2016-07-19
• Last Update Posted: 2016-07-20

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 22

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

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: CROSSOVER

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
water	water	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.
cooling ice	Cooling Ice Spray	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.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Time to stability	All measurements will be executed within 1hour. After 2 days the measurements will be repeated	Immediately after the application the time to stability after a forward jump will be assessed.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Skin temperature	All measurements will be executed within 1hour. After 2 days the measurements will be repeated	Immediately after the application the Skin temperature will be assessed.
Side step time to stability	All measurements will be executed within 1hour. After 2 days the measurements will be repeated	Immediately after the application the time to stability after side step will be assessed.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Balgrist Univeresty Hospital; 🇨🇭 Zurich, ZH, Switzerland