Effect of Self-administered Exercises on PRMD

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Pain

• Registration Number: NCT02420301
• Lead Sponsor: Universidade do Porto

Brief Summary

Objective: To study the effects of self-administered exercises based on tuina techniques on the pain intensity caused by playing related musculoskeletal disorders (PRMD) of professional orchestra musicians, using numeric visual scale (NVS).

Method: The investigators performed a prospective, controlled, single-blinded, randomized study with musicians suffering from PRMD. n= 69 musicians were randomly distributed into the experimental and into the control group. After an individual diagnostic assessment, specific tuina self-administered exercises were developed and taught to the participants. Musicians were instructed (educated) to repeat the exercises every day during 3 weeks. Pain intensity was measured by NVS before the intervention and after the 1st, 3rd, 5th, 10th, 15th and 20th days of self-exercising. The procedure was the same for the control group, however the Tuina exercises were executed in non-acupuncture points

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-07
• Primary Completion: 2013-12
• Study Completion: 2013-12
• Status Verified: 2015-03
• Study First Submitted: 2015-03-30
• Study First Submitted QC: 2015-04-16
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-04-16
• Study First Posted: 2015-04-17
• Last Update Posted: 2015-04-17

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 69

Inclusion Criteria

• Professional orchestra musician presenting playing related musculoskeletal pain during at least 3 weeks

Exclusion Criteria

Not provided

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Verbal numeric scale	After 20 days