Efficacy of Instrumental Chiropractic Treatment Using Activator Methods for Pain and Dysfunction in Juvenile Athletes

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Pain in Leg, Unspecified; Knee Sprain
• Interventions: Device: Activator IV (Activator Methods Int. Phoenix, Arizona)

• Registration Number: NCT01449994
• Lead Sponsor: Medical University of Graz

Brief Summary

The goal of the study is to prove efficacy of instrumental chiropractic treatment for leg pain in juvenile athletes.

A randomized placebo controlled clinical trial including juvenile athletes with functional impairment and pain in thigh, leg or foot is performed.

Hypothesis: Instrumental chiropractic treatment with the "activator instrument "following the "activator methods" diagnostic evaluation should lead to significant improvement of complaints and functional impairment compared to the control group treated by a deactivated instrument following a sham evaluation protocol.

Detailed Description

Pain and functional impairment may force young athletes to interrupt training plans and/or even stay away from competition. Usually elite athletes run through an abundance of tests and diagnostic features-too often these high cost diagnostics don´t provide useful information for treatment. Treating the symptoms in the first place (after ruling out severe pathology) will reduce the need for extensive diagnostic routines and bring athletes back to competition earlier.

In our outpatient department of young elite sportsmen chiropractic instrumental treatment is performed routinely- mostly a pain reduction of 3-4 levels in VAS is achieved within the first session of treatment.

The following study is thought to prove the efficacy of the Chiropractic Instrumental Treatment performed at our sports-medicine outpatient department.

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2010-07
• Study First Submitted: 2011-07-20
• Study First Submitted QC: 2011-10-07
• Study First Posted: 2011-10-10
• Primary Completion: 2011-11
• Status Verified: 2012-02
• Study Completion: 2012-02
• Last Update Submitted: 2012-02-07
• Last Update Posted: 2012-02-08

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 26

Inclusion Criteria

• functional problems in the lower extremities

Exclusion Criteria

• severe pathology that requires different treatment

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Placebo-Activator	Activator IV (Activator Methods Int. Phoenix, Arizona)	Treatment with Placebo Activator IV
Activator	Activator IV (Activator Methods Int. Phoenix, Arizona)	Treatment with Activator IV adjusting instrument

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Reduction of Pain	1 week

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

MedUni Graz Pediatric Surgery and Ped. Orthopedics; 🇦🇹 Graz, Styria, Austria