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Effects of Manual Therapy and Exercise in the Treatment of Ankle Sprains

NCT02252276 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 54

Last updated 2014-09-30

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Summary

Objectives: To analyze the effects of proprioceptive and strengthening exercises versus the same exercises and manual therapy on the recurrent ankle sprain management.

Design: A randomized clinical trial with two intervention groups and triple blind.

Settings: University Hospital.

Participants: Fifty-four patients with previous history of recurrent ankle sprains, regular sports practice and pain during the physical activity, randomly assigned to experimental or control group.

Intervention: Control group performed 4 weeks of proprioceptive and strengthening exercises; experimental group performed 4 weeks of the same exercises combined with manual therapy.

Main Outcomes Measures: Pain, ankle instability, pressure pain threshold (PPT), ankle eversion strength, and active range of motion in ankle joint. The measures were taken before, after and one month after the interventions.

Conditions

  • Ankle Sprains

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Experimental (proprioception exercises, muscle strengthening, joint mobilization)

The experimental group performed a combined protocol of proprioception (the patient doing exercises standing on an unstable plane)exercises and muscle strengthening (The patient performed eccentric exercises to work the movement inversion of ankle), and joint mobilization techniques of the ankle joint two session per week, during four weeks

PROCEDURE

Control (proprioception exercises, muscle strengthening)

The control group performed only proprioception exercises (the patient doing exercises standing on an unstable plane) and muscle strengthening (The patient performed eccentric exercises to work the movement inversion of ankle). Two sessión per week during four weeks

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Alcala

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Tomas Gallego-Izquierdo, Dr · Alcala University

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2014-01-31
Primary Completion
2014-04-30
Completion
2014-07-31

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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