Immediate and Delayed Effects of Kinesio Taping on the Neuromuscular Performance, Balance and Lower Limb Function of Healthy Subjects: Randomized Clinical Trial
Overview
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Intervention
- Not specified
- Conditions
- Neuromuscular Performance, Balance and Function
- Sponsor
- Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
- Enrollment
- 60
- Locations
- 1
- Primary Endpoint
- Muscle Performance measured through isokinetic dynamometry
- Status
- Completed
- Last Updated
- 9 years ago
Overview
Brief Summary
The purpose of this study is analyze the immediate and late effects of the application of KT in neuromuscular performance of the quadriceps in postural balance and function of the lower limb of healthy subjects.
Detailed Description
Sixty volunteers, females will be recruited and randomly divided into 3 groups with 20 members each: control group (CG) - 10 minutes at rest; placebo group (PG) - Kinesio Taping (KT) without application of tension in the vastus lateralis (VL), vastus (VM) and rectus femoris (RF); and Kinesio Taping group (KTG) - application of KT with tension in VL, VM and RF. All volunteers will be evaluated for their distance from the single and triple hop test, postural balance (baropodometry), the joint position sense (JPS), the knee extensor torque (concentric and eccentric assessment at 60 °/s) and electromyographic activity of the VL muscle in five distinct stages: the first before the intervention (AV1), the second immediately after (AV2) and the following three 24h (AV3), 48 (AV4) after the intervention protocol. Soon after the AV4, KT will be removed after 24 hours and take place the last review (AV5).
Investigators
Jamilson Simões Brasileiro
Professor of Physiotherapy
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
- •Be recreationally active, with no history of osteomyoarticular lesion or surgery in the lower limbs in the previous six months, non-corrected neurological, vestibular, visual and/or hearing impairments, in addition to displaying no allergy to adhesive material.
Exclusion Criteria
- •Individuals experiencing pain during collection procedures or who do not perform exercises as instructed by the researchers would be excluded.
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Muscle Performance measured through isokinetic dynamometry
Time Frame: baseline, one minute after the intervention protocol, 24 hours, 48 hours and 72 hours after the intervention protocol.
Change from baseline in muscle performance at 72 hours.Immediate and Delayed Effects of Kinesio Taping in the muscle performance will be measured through isokinetic dynamometry and the variables analyzed will be peak torque normalized for body weight, mean power, total work and time to peak torque.
Secondary Outcomes
- Balance measured through baropodometry(baseline, one minute after the intervention protocol, 24 hours, 48 hours and 72 hours after the intervention protocol.)
- Lower limb function(baseline, one minute after the intervention protocol, 24 hours, 48 hours and 72 hours after the intervention protocol.)
- Proprioception measured through joint position sense in the isokinetic dynamometer(baseline, one minute after the intervention protocol, 24 hours, 48 hours and 72 hours after the intervention protocol.)
- Muscle activation measured through surface electromyography(baseline, one minute after the intervention protocol, 24 hours, 48 hours and 72 hours after the intervention protocol.)