NCT00846664

Short Arc Multifidus Study

Increase in Multifidus Size By Short Arc Banding on the ATM Machine as Measure by Diagnostic Ultrasound

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: EARLY_Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Logan College of Chiropractic · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 54 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Patients will be performing Logan short arc banding protocols to see the effect on multifidus size

Detailed description

The subjects will initially be scanned by diagnostic ultrasound by to assess the cross sectional area of their lumbar multifidi. Then they will perform 3 sets of 30 second periods of Logan Short Arc Banding on the ATM machine twice a week for 4 weeks and then they will be scanned again using diagnostic ultrasound to assess the effects of the rehabilitation exercise.

Conditions

• Multifidus Disuse Atrophy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Logan Short Arc Banding	Group 1 wil perform short arc banding twice a week for four weeks and have diagnostic ultrasound of multifidus measured before and after intervention

Timeline

• Start date: 2009-02-01
• Primary completion: 2009-03-01
• Completion: 2009-03-01
• First posted: 2009-02-19
• Last updated: 2009-02-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States