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The Effect of Dynamic and Rigid Tape Application on the Asymmetry of the Lower Limbs

NCT04345224 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 90

Last updated 2022-04-12

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Summary

This is a prospective randomized three brachial, single-blinded, placebo-controlled trial, which aims at assessing the impact of the gluteal muscle taping with a dynamic tape and a non-elastic tape on the activation of the gluteal muscles and the distribution of the lower limb load in healthy people.

The study participants will be randomly classified into the following groups: A - dynamic kinesiology taping, B - rigid tape, C - placebo group (sham). Patients will be evaluated three times - before applying the tapes, 30 minutes after applying the tapes and 48 hours after applying the tapes.

Conditions

  • Muscle Weakness

Interventions

OTHER

Dynamic tape

A kinesiology tape will be applied to the lateral hip of the affected side to facilitate the gluteus medius muscle activation while the participant is lying down. The first third of one I-strip will begin at the posterior iliac crest without tension to provide an anchor that will not cross the target tissue. The participant will actively flex the adducted hip to allow for the application of the middle third of the tape with approximately 50 percent tension (able to visualize the wave pattern in the tape). Subsequently, with the leg in the original position, the remainder of the tape will be applied without tension, ending approximately at the greater trochanter. Afterward, the second I-strip will be applied in the same manner starting at the anterior iliac crest.

OTHER

Rigid tape

The rigid tape will be applied in a standing position. The first tape will be applied from the greater trochanter to the anterior iliac crest. The second from the greater trochanter to the posterior iliac crest. Both tapes are applied with the muscle mass lifted towards the iliac crest.

OTHER

Sham tape

The control group (sham tape application) will receive a single strip of a Kinesio tape across the lateral affected hip without tension in the tape or muscle stretch.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • John Paul II University in Biała Podlaska

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Krystyna Gawlik, Ph.D · Pope John Paul II State School of Higher Education in Biala Podlaska

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
19 Years
Max Age
24 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2020-12-10
Primary Completion
2022-03-29
Completion
2022-03-30

Countries

  • Poland

Study Locations

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