NCT01730859

The Effect of Ankle Taping and Balance Exercises on Postural Stability

The Effect of Ankle Taping and Balance Exercises on Postural Stability Indices in Healthy Women

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Zahedan University of Medical Sciences · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 19 Years – 22 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Both taping and balance exercises have effects on dynamic balance, so this study compared ankle taping and balance exercise on postural stability indices in healthy women. we hypothesized that both balance exercise and taping would increase stability indices but the effects of balance exercise was more greater than taping.

Detailed description

The ability to control the body in the space is a complex interaction between musculoskeletal and neural systems. This set is called postural control system. Postural control involves the control of body position in space for the dual purposes of postural stability and postural orientation. Balance process is divided into four-stage by Sullivan and Markos: mobility, stability, controlled mobility, and skill. Several types of exercise have been proposed to improve proprioception. Bout and Gahery stated that balance exercises improve neuromuscular relations and reduces the proprioception errors. They believe that those who have more proprioception difficulty may benefit more from exercise therapy.Taping is another technique to enhance proprioception. Improvement in proprioception leads to better function and reduction of disability. Kinesiotaping is being used to prevent injuries and to help curing the injury. It can also improve efficiency in sport, improve lymph and venous circulation, decrease edema, stimulate the mechanoreceptors and increase awareness of subject about the ankle position, reduces the pain and improves muscle performance

Conditions

• Disturbance; Balance, Labyrinth
• Proprioceptive Disorders

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Balance exercise and ankle taping	Balance Exercises: The first group performed balance exercise which last for six weeks, 3 times a week, and 40 minutes each session. Each session started by several minutes of slow walking and progressive stretching of ankle, knee and hip muscles which was gradually increased in time and repetition. After that, balance exercises were performed. Ankle taping: In second group Ankle joint taping continued for 6 weeks and was renewed three times a week.

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-02-01
• Primary completion: 2011-10-01
• Completion: 2011-12-01
• First posted: 2012-11-21
• Last updated: 2012-11-22

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Iran