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Effects of Kinesiotaping on Muscular Activity, Mobility, Strength and Pain After Rotator Cuff Surgery

NCT03379636 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 39

Last updated 2017-12-22

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Summary

Kinesiotape (KT) is widely used in musculoskeletal rehabilitation as an adjuvant to treatment but minimal evidence supports its use. The aim of this study is to determine the immediate and short-term effects of shoulder KT on muscular activity, mobility, strength and pain after rotator cuff surgery. Our hypotheses were that KT should not improve muscle function, mobility, strength or pain in a clinically meaningful way.

Methods: Thirty-nine subjects with shoulder rotator cuff surgery were tested 6 and 12 weeks post-surgery, without tape, with KT and with a sham tape (ST). KT and ST were applied in a randomized order. For each condition, muscular activity of upper trapezius, three parts of deltoid and infraspinatus during shoulder flexion, range of motion (ROM) and pain intensity were assessed. At 12 weeks, isometric strength at 90° of shoulder flexion, with related muscular activity and pain intensity were also measured. Subjects maintained the last tape applied for three days and recorded pain intensity at wake-up and during the day.

Conditions

  • Rotator Cuff Tear

Interventions

DEVICE

kinesiotape

Application of an elastic beige 5-cm width Leukotape®K (BSN medical, Germany). The first strip, a Y-strip, was applied with 10% to 15% of tension over the deltoid muscle, from origin to insertion with the first tail along the anterior deltoid while the arm was externally rotated and horizontally abducted. The second tail was applied along the posterior deltoid with the arm horizontally adducted and internally rotated. A second strip, an I-strip, was applied for mechanical correction, transversally in the sagittal plane over the acromioclavicular joint with a downward pressure applied to the KT, the arm being at trunk side

DEVICE

sham tape

a rigid Leukotape®Classic (BSN medical, Germany) was used. A 5-cm strip was applied transversally under the deltoid tuberosity with no tension and with no direct influence on shoulder area.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Clinique Romande de Readaptation

    lead NETWORK

Principal Investigators

  • Bertrand Léger, PhD · Clinique romande de réadaptation

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-01-07
Primary Completion
2017-01-04
Completion
2017-01-04

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