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Cold and Isometric Strength

NCT02884193 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 114

Last updated 2020-04-03

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Summary

Cryotherapy has a wide range of clinical applications in rehabilitation, used for activities such as controlling inflammation, pain control or management of edema after an injury or surgery. In the field of cryotherapy they studied cold neuromuscular responses, where it has shown a decrease in nerve conduction velocity, which leads to a decrease in muscle strength. However it has been described in some work applications brief cold ("Quick Icing") may be opposite to those described effects, increasing the strength, the time of intervention the most important and decisive in these possible improvements or decreases factor. This effect is observed in response to a few seconds of application of cold, and would be given by an increased activity of motor neurons. Assess the influence of rapid cooling application ("Technique Quick Icing") and prolonged cooling in handgrip strength when performing a manual dynamometer test in college students.

Conditions

  • Muscle Strength

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Brief Cooling

Brief Application of cold, for a period of up to 30 seconds on a body surface which seeks to promote the activation of the nervous system to produce increased excitability.

PROCEDURE

Prolonged Cold

Prolonged application of cold, for at least 5 minutes or more, on a body surface that aims to reduce nervous system activation by reducing the NCV.

PROCEDURE

Sham Ice Bag

Placebo application through an "ice bag" empty.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Quiropraxia y Equilibrio

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Hernán Andrés de la Barra Ortiz, Mg · Universidad Andrés Bello

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-04-30
Primary Completion
2019-11-12
Completion
2020-03-20

Countries

  • Chile

Study Locations

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