NCT04411095

The Effect of the Release of the Intrathoracic Fascia on Thoracic Rotation Mobility

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 22 (actual)
• Sponsor: International Academy of Osteopathy · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Testing the effect of a specific stretch technique versus sham treatment, to objectify the influence of that specific technique on thoracic rotation mobility.

Detailed description

Subjects in the experimental group will undergo a technique for stretching the intrathoracic fascia. Before and after, a measurement will be performed with a goniometer, to see if there is a difference in thoracic rotation mobility. Subjects in the placebo group get a different technique, where the hands of the therapists are simply placed on the thorax, but no manoeuvre will be performed. Before and after, there is a measurement in thoracic rotation mobility. Data will be compared and statistical analyse will be done to see of there is a difference in rotation. So the hypothesis that stretching intrathoracic fascia has an effect on thoracic rotation mobility, will be accepted or rejected.

Conditions

• Fascia; Inflammation
• Thoracic
• Rotation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Measuring thoracic rotation mobility	Measuring the thoracic rotation mobility with a goniometer, from a standardized position

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-02-28
• Primary completion: 2020-04-01
• Completion: 2020-04-01
• First posted: 2020-06-02
• Last updated: 2020-06-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Belgium