NCT06348186

Fascial Tissue Response to Manual Therapy: Implications in Long COVID-19

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of the State of Santa Catarina · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), as of mid-September 2022, more than 21 million Brazilians have recovered from COVID-19. However, post-infection symptoms continue to appear months after the end of the acute infection, a syndrome called long COVID. Therefore, the aim of this study is to investigate the responses of fascia-focused manual therapy in participants with long COVID.

Detailed description

Participants reported to have long COVID, of both sexes, aged between 20 and 80 years, from the community, outpatient clinics and hospitals will be evaluated. The treatment of participants will be carried out at the CEFID-UDESC Physiotherapy School Clinic, where they will undergo assessment of the biomechanical and viscoelastic properties of tissues, postural control, pain and quality of life. For normality analysis, the Shapiro-Wilk test will be applied, and according to the distribution of the data, parametric or non-parametric tests will be used. Pre- and post-assessment and treatment data will be compared using descriptive statistics and Student's t-test with a significance level of p=0.05 for parametric data or Wilcoxon for non-parametric data.

Conditions

• COVID-19

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Guidebook	Folder that will be given to the participant to carry out 5 minutes of intervention daily
OTHER	Guidebook and Myofascial Reorganization® (RMF).	The intervention will be carried out once a week for 30 minutes for 6 weeks. It will include passive, active-assisted moments (with and without load). In addition to a folder that will be given to the participant to carry out 5 minutes of intervention daily.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-02-01
• Primary completion: 2024-04-01
• Completion: 2025-08-31
• First posted: 2024-04-04
• Last updated: 2024-11-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil