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Pain Modulatory Profiles in Massage for Healthy Participants

NCT03490474 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2018-12-13

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

One in ten adults experience widespread pain. Neck pain, for example, is a prevalent condition with a high rate of recurrence that affects between 10.4% and 21.3% of the population annually.

Massage is a common manual therapy intervention for individuals with musculoskeletal pain. However, the mechanisms of massage are not well established. Also, the conditioned pain modulation (CPM) paradigm is a dynamic quantitative sensory testing measure of a pain inhibitory process in which pain sensitivity is lessened in response to a remotely applied painful stimulus.

This study will evaluate the association between pain inducing massage and the conditioned pain modulation paradigm.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Pain Inducing Massage

Participants will receive 60 seconds of manual pressure applied to one myofascial trigger point so the participant rates the pain = 5/10 on a scale from 0 to 10. This will be followed by 30 seconds of complete pressure release. This will occur 4 times.

OTHER

Pain Free Massage

Participants will receive 60 seconds of light touch applied to one myofascial trigger point so the participant rates the pain = 0/10 on a scale from 0 to 10. This will be followed by 30 seconds of complete pressure release. This will occur 4 times.

OTHER

Coldpressor

Participants will place their non-dominant hand into water cooled by a refrigeration unit temperature of 6 degrees Celsius (males) or 8 degrees Celsius (females). The participant will place his or her hand in the cooled water for 60 seconds followed by a 30 second break in which the participant will remove his or her hand from the water. This will occur 4 times.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Florida

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Joel Bialosky, PhD · University of Florida

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-04-16
Primary Completion
2018-12-12
Completion
2018-12-12

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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