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Cold Water Immersion Does Not Reduce Knee Joint Position Sense in Healthy Participants: a Randomised Cross-over Trial

NCT00996398 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 14

Last updated 2009-10-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The aim of this project is to assess the effect of cold water immersion on knee joint re-positional sense in healthy subjects. Cryotherapy, in the form of cold water immersion, had previously been shown to improve athletic performance however, debate exists within the existing literature regarding whether proprioception, in the form or joint position sense, is effected post treatment.

Null hypothesis (H0): Water immersion has no effect on joint position sense (JPS).

Alternate hypothesis (H1): Water immersion has an effect on joint position sense.

Conditions

  • Knee Joint Position Sense

Interventions

OTHER

Tepid water immersion

28°C ± 1°C for the cold water immersion for 30 minutes to the level of the umbilicus

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Limerick

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Alan E Donnelly, PhD · University of Limerick

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
40 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-05-31
Primary Completion
2009-09-30
Completion
2009-09-30

Countries

  • Ireland

Study Locations

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