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Influence of Patient Expectations With Lateral Epicondylalgia in Applying Mobilization With Movement

NCT02396550 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 66

Last updated 2016-10-18

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Summary

Lateral epicondylalgia affects people of both gender between 1 and 3% of the world population, with up to 15% in the working population reaching an average of 12 weeks off work for this reason. One of the conservative treatments that have shown effective is the mobilization with movement, whose mechanisms of action are not known. According Bialosky et al., possible effects of manual therapy are based on the neurophysiological mechanisms at peripheral, spinal and supraspinal level. Among the mechanisms to supraspinal level is the placebo effect, which is influenced by psychological factors such as conditioning and expectations.

Changing expectations to determine the influence on the treatment has been studied in healthy subjects, showing improvement with positive expectations and worsening to negative and neutral expectations.

However the result of modifying the previous expectations for treatment in patients with pain has not been studied.

The aim of our study is to test the influence that positive expectations have on the effectiveness of treatment with mobilization with movement in patients with lateral epicondylalgia.

Conditions

  • Tennis Elbow

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Positive Expectations

Give positive expectation of the treatment efficacy to patients

PROCEDURE

Mobilization with movement

Give neutral expectation of the treatment efficacy to patients

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Alcala

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
QUADRUPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-01-31
Primary Completion
2016-01-31
Completion
2016-09-30

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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