Clinical trial NCT04729660: Efficacy of Kinesio Taping on Mutational Falsetto
Official title: Efficacy of Kinesio Taping on Mutational Falsetto: A Randomized, Double-blind, Sham-controlled Clinical Trial
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Mutational Falsetto
Dysphonia
Keywords: kinesio taping
mutational falsetto
therapy
dysphonia
Lead sponsor: Prof. Dr. Cemil Tascıoglu Education and Research Hospital Organization
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-01-28
Enrollment: 30
Sex: MALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 60
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: This study aimed to assess of efficacy of the kinesio-taping on male patients suffering from mutational falsetto

Detailed description: Mutational falsetto is a functional voice disorder involving a failure to transition from the high-pitched voice of childhood to the lower-pitch ed voice of adolescence and adulthood. In the recent years, kinesio taping has begun to be employed for treating dysphonia patients. We hypothesized that, because the kinesio taping relaxes the suprahyoid muscles and pushes the larynx backward, it could also be used as a therapy of mutational falsetto. This study aimed to assess of efficacy of the kinesio taping on male patients suffering from mutational falsetto.

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients suffered from Mutational falsetto
* Patients who were accept to consent form
* Patients who have not open wound on neck

Exclusion Criteria:

* Having mental disorders or major physiatric disorders
* Cognitive limitations
* Contact dermatitis
* history of smoking
* Asthma, chronic pulmonary diseases
* history of allergic reactions against to medical tape applied
* having an other organic vocal disorders
* advanced hearing loss
* Out of BMI\<18.5 or 30\<BMI
* Out of age 16-60 years old patients who were not accept to consent form.

Primary outcomes:
measure: The outcomes of voice handicap index - 10
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: The outcomes of voice handicap index - 10
timeFrame: 2 weeks
measure: The outcomes of Grade-Roughness-Breathiness-Asthenia-Strain scale
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: The outcomes of Grade-Roughness-Breathiness-Asthenia-Strain scale
timeFrame: 2 weeks
measure: The outcomes of fundamental frequency
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: The outcomes of fundamental frequency
timeFrame: 2 weeks
measure: The outcomes of maximum phonation times
timeFrame: Baseline
measure: The outcomes of maximum phonation times
timeFrame: 2 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Mean of demographic
timeFrame: Baseline
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Istanbul
country: Turkey
facility: Prof Dr Cemil Tascioglu City Hospital
Study officials:
affiliation: University of Health Sciences, Prof Dr Cemil Tascioglu City Hospital
name: Yavuz Atar, Asso Prof,MD
role: STUDY_CHAIR
References:
citation: Salturk Z, Doganay T, Ustun O, Tutar B, Akgun MF, Uyar Y. Efficacy of Low Mandible Maneuver on Mutational Falsetto. Folia Phoniatr Logop. 2021;73(5):442-448. doi: 10.1159/000506631. Epub 2020 Mar 27.
citation: Mezzedimi C, Spinosi M, Mannino V, Ferretti F, Al-Balas H. Kinesio Taping Application in Dysphonic Singers. J Voice. 2020 May;34(3):487.e11-487.e20. doi: 10.1016/j.jvoice.2018.11.001. Epub 2018 Dec 6.