NCT04400968

Effects of Kinesiotaping vs.Auricular Therapy in Primary Dysmenorrhoea.

A Randomised Clinical Trial of the Effects of Kinesiotaping vs.Auricular Therapy in Women With Primary Dysmenorrhoea.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 160 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Extremadura · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 30 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study analyse the effectiveness of auricular therapy vs. kinesio tape treatment for pain management of women with primary dysmenorrhoea.

Detailed description

Pharmacological treatments are not effective for all women and therefore, the objective of this study was to assess and compare the effectiveness of kinesio tape and auricular therapy to decrease pain and drug intake in women with primary dysmenorrhoea. A randomized controlled trial was conducted. 114 university women from 18 to 30 years old were randomized to 5 groups: control, kinesio tape, placebo kinesio tape, auricular therapy and placebo auricular therapy. The study was carried out during 4 menstrual cycles of pre-treatment phase, 4 menstrual cycles of treatment phase and two follow up phases (first and third cycle after the treatments were completed). During the treatment phase, the techniques were applied during 72h in each cycle. The primary outcome measures were: Mean pain intensity of the 3 first days of bleeding, maximum pain intensity, number of painful days and dose of drug intake measured with the Visual Analogue Scale.

Conditions

• Primary Dysmenorrhoea

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Auricular therapy	The auricular therapy points were selected following the protocol for dysmenorrhoea described by Oleson (Oleson, 2008). These points were (the name of the European cartography is specified by the name of the point): Shenmen \[FT2\], uterus \[FT5\], sympathetic \[HI4\], kidney \[CS6\], heart \[CI4\], endocrine \[IT2\] and thalamus \[PC2\].
PROCEDURE	kinesio tape	Before the tape application, the skin surface was removed of hair when needed and cleansed. The tapes were applied at 25% of tension and were placed horizontally covering the area between the antero-superior iliac spines and the postero-superior iliac spines and vertically from the navel to the symphysis pubis. All bandages were adhered to the skin with a technique type I with a space augmentation. The centre of the tape was removed and applied at 25% of tension. Afterwards, the rest of the protector were removed and the laterals anchors of the tape were adhered with no tension. The participant maintained a slight extension of the trunk while the tape was applied on the anterior aspect of the truck and a slight flexion while the tape was applied in the posterior aspect of the trunk.
PROCEDURE	Auricular therapy Placebo group	Sham auricular therapy
PROCEDURE	kinesio tape Placebo group	Sham kinesio tape

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-10-01
• Primary completion: 2018-08-30
• Completion: 2018-08-30
• First posted: 2020-05-26
• Last updated: 2020-05-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain