NCT03255538

Deep Friction Massage: Symptomatic

Deep Friction Massage Effects on Pain and Function in Patellar Tendinopathy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (actual)
• Sponsor: Cooperativa de Ensino Superior, Politécnico e Universitário · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not 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 or function in the symptomatic patellar tendon. Having this, our objective is to characterize the pressure applied during deep friction massage and evaluate the immediate effects of different pressures applied during deep friction massage in the time until analgesia as well as in function, in patellar tendinopathy.

Conditions

• Tendinopathy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	DFM: Mean pressure	Deep friction massage as described by Dr. James Cyriax, performed with the mean pressure previously obtained in a baseline assessment.
OTHER	DFM: Mean pressure - 25%	Deep friction massage as described by Dr. James Cyriax, performed with the mean pressure previously obtained in a baseline assessment decremented by 25%.
OTHER	DFM: Mean pressure + 25%	Deep friction massage as described by Dr. James Cyriax, performed with the mean pressure previously obtained in a baseline assessment incremented by 25%.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-08-21
• Primary completion: 2017-11-20
• Completion: 2017-11-20
• First posted: 2017-08-21
• Last updated: 2018-03-07

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Portugal