NCT03255525

Deep Friction Massage Effects: Asymptomatic

Deep Friction Massage Effects on Analgesia of the Asymptomatic Patellar Tendon

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: Cooperativa de Ensino Superior, Politécnico e Universitário · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Despite DFM being a widely-used technique and the empirical grounding regarding the importance of the pressure applied, there is no study characterizing the pressure applied during DFM, remaining it a discretion of the physiotherapist. Additionally, it is not known how the amount of pressure applied may influence pain mechanisms and, consequently how it affects the time needed promote an analgesic response. Having this, our general objective is to establish a dose-response relationship between the pressure applied during DFM and time of onset of analgesia, in the asymptomatic patellar tendon.

Conditions

• Deep Friction Massage

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Deep friction massage P50	Deep friction massage as described by Dr. James Cyriax, applied with the mean pressure (P50)
OTHER	Deep friction massage P25	Deep friction massage as described by Dr. James Cyriax, applied with the percentile 25 of the mean pressure (P25)
OTHER	Deep friction massage P75	Deep friction massage as described by Dr. James Cyriax, applied with the percentile 75 of the mean pressure (P75)

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-07-26
• Primary completion: 2017-08-16
• Completion: 2017-08-16
• First posted: 2017-08-21
• Last updated: 2017-08-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Portugal