Effects of Muscle Fatigue and Kinesio Taping on Shoulder Position Sense

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Fatigue; Proprioception
• Interventions: Other: Fatigue protocol; Other: Kinesio taping without tension; Other: Kinesio taping with tension

• Registration Number: NCT02104570
• Lead Sponsor: University of Oregon

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of Kinesio Taping on the position sense of shoulder after muscle fatigue.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2014-02
• Study First Submitted: 2014-03-24
• Study First Submitted QC: 2014-04-01
• Study First Posted: 2014-04-04
• Primary Completion: 2014-05
• Study Completion: 2014-05
• Status Verified: 2014-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2014-12-02
• Last Update Posted: 2014-12-03

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 24

Inclusion Criteria

• Healthy participants

Exclusion Criteria

• prior shoulder surgery
• shoulder injury that required rehabilitation in the last 2 years
• shoulder dislocation
• ligamentous laxity

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: CROSSOVER

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Control	Fatigue protocol	In this session, participants will be evaluated before and after a muscle fatigue protocol, with no intervention.
Kinesio taping without tension	Kinesio taping without tension	A kinesio taping technique will be applied on the deltoid muscle without tension (tension is considered to be the therapeutic effect) before fatigue protocol and removed after in the end of the evaluation session. Subjects will be evaluated before taping, after taping and after the fatigue protocol.
Kinesio taping with tension	Kinesio taping with tension	A kinesio taping technique for the deltoid muscle will be applied before fatigue protocol and removed after in the end of the evaluation session. Subjects will be evaluated before taping, after taping and after the fatigue protocol.
Kinesio taping without tension	Fatigue protocol	A kinesio taping technique will be applied on the deltoid muscle without tension (tension is considered to be the therapeutic effect) before fatigue protocol and removed after in the end of the evaluation session. Subjects will be evaluated before taping, after taping and after the fatigue protocol.
Kinesio taping with tension	Fatigue protocol	A kinesio taping technique for the deltoid muscle will be applied before fatigue protocol and removed after in the end of the evaluation session. Subjects will be evaluated before taping, after taping and after the fatigue protocol.

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Changes in joint repositioning angle errors	Baseline (in the beginning of the session, without taping), 5 minutes after taping (or equivalent time resting, in the control session) and average of 3 minutes after fatigue protocol.	The joint repositioning errors will be measured during active repositioning trials of shoulder abduction in scapular plane using an iPod app.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University of Oregon; 🇺🇸 Eugene, Oregon, United States