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Does Manual Therapy Provide Immediate Improvement in Lumbar Range of Motion?

NCT05926674 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2023-11-21

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The goal of this clinical study is to determine if manual therapy can improve lumbar mobility in healthy individuals.

The main questions it aims to answer are:

* Is there an immediate local spinal effect?
* Is there an associated distal effect?

Researchers will compare an experimental group and a control group to examine the effects.

Conditions

  • N/A Healthy Individuals

Interventions

OTHER

Myofascial Release

Myofascial release is a manual therapy technique commonly used by clinicians and bodyworkers to provide effects such as decreased pain, improvement in flexibility, ROM, and quality of life. It combines non-gliding fascial traction with varying amounts of stretching to produce a tensional force on the muscle and its associated fascia resulting in viscoelastic lengthening and deformation.

OTHER

Light Touch Contact

The sham treatment of light touch will be applied to the lumbar spine and this form of contact is not therapeutic. It is only meant to only mimic a manual therapy technique.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • New York Institute of Technology

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Mark Gugliotti, DPT · New York Institute of Technology

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2023-07-15
Primary Completion
2023-07-22
Completion
2023-07-26

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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