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Is Kinesio Taping Able to Influence the Electrical Activity of Muscles in Patients With Low Back Pain?

NCT02759757 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 63

Last updated 2016-05-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Objectives: To test if the Kinesio Tex Gold ® is able to change the electromyographic signal of iliocostalis and longissimus muscles in patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain.

Study design: Three-arm, randomized controlled trial with a blinded assessor.

Location of study: Physical therapy Clinic of the Universidade Cidade de São Paulo (UNICID)

Patients: Sixty-three patients with chronic nonspecific low back pain.

Intervention: Patients allocated to the Kinesio Taping® group will receive the tape as described by the manufacturer's manual. The patients assigned to the placebo group will receive a Micropore tape and the control group will not receive any intervention. All groups will be assessed before and 30 minutes after intervention

Measures: The following outcomes will be measured: 1) Muscle activity and 2) pain intensity.

Limitations: Therapists will not be blinded.

Conditions

  • Chronic Low Back Pain

Interventions

OTHER

Kinesio Taping

This is a tape that can be placed in different parts of the body using different shapes and tensions. In theory, this tape can change muscle activity.

OTHER

Placebo

A micropore tape will be used as placebo

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Leandro Pires

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Leonardo OP Costa, PhD · Universidade Cidade de São Paulo

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
2016-05-31
Primary Completion
2016-10-31
Completion
2017-02-28

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