Clinical trial NCT03899714: Return to Physical Activity Following Injury: Towards Understanding a More Accessible Solution for Shorter Recovery Time.
Official title: Return to Physical Activity Following Injury: Towards Understanding a More Accessible Solution for Shorter Recovery Time.
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: UNKNOWN
Phase: NA
Conditions: Cryotherapy
Keywords: Postural Stability
Public Health
Balance
Lead sponsor: Cairo University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-04-02
Enrollment: 30
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 30
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: CROSSOVER
Intervention model description: Participants will be randomly assigned into one of two locations of the cryotherapy application. Some began the session with cryotherapy being applied on their ankle evertors, while others began the session with the cryotherapy being applied on their hip adductors.
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of cryotherapy application on hip adductors and ankle evertors on the Overall Stability Index (OSI), the Medio-Lateral Stability Index (MLSI), and the Antero-Posterior Stability Index (APSI) in healthy adult females.

Detailed description: Cryotherapy is one of the most common and inexpensive forms of treatment for both acute and chronic injuries. Yet, there is a deficiency in research concerning the impact of cooling on balance in healthy females

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* healthy females will participate in this study. All participants should have unrestricted ankle and hip joints range of motion as well as ankle and hip muscles strength grade four to five (using manual muscle testing).

Exclusion Criteria:

* Participants will be excluded from the study if they had any previous history of hip or ankle joint neuromuscular or musculoskeletal injury or surgery, any pathology to the hip or ankle joints (i.e. abnormal ligament laxity and congenital deformities), any problems related to balance and stability.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Overall Stability Index
timeFrame: changes from Baseline to immediately after the cryotherapy application
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Medio-lateral Postural Stability Index
timeFrame: changes from Baseline to immediately after the cryotherapy application
measure: Antero-posterior Postural Stability index
timeFrame: changes from Baseline to immediately after the cryotherapy application
Other outcomes:
Locations:
Study officials:
affiliation: Lecturer of Biomechanics
name: Ayman G Matar, PhD
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: Assistant Professor of Biomechanics
name: Nagui S Nassif, Prof.
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Professor of Biomechanics
name: Naglaa M Elhafez, Prof.
role: STUDY_CHAIR
affiliation: Professor of Biomechanics
name: Ghada M Elhafez, Prof.
role: STUDY_DIRECTOR
affiliation: Public Health Teaching Fellow
name: Sondus Hassounah, Public Health Teaching Fellow
role: STUDY_CHAIR
References:
citation: Algafly AA, George KP. The effect of cryotherapy on nerve conduction velocity, pain threshold and pain tolerance. Br J Sports Med. 2007 Jun;41(6):365-9; discussion 369. doi: 10.1136/bjsm.2006.031237. Epub 2007 Jan 15.
citation: Bleakley C, McDonough S, MacAuley D. The use of ice in the treatment of acute soft-tissue injury: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials. Am J Sports Med. 2004 Jan-Feb;32(1):251-61. doi: 10.1177/0363546503260757.