Clinical trial NCT04019392: Rate of Tissue Temperature Reduction Between Wetted Ice and Game Ready
Official title: The Rate of Intramuscular Tissue Temperature Reduction Between Wetted Ice With Elastic Wrap and Game Ready
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Cryotherapy Effect
Keywords: cooling rates
Lead sponsor: North Dakota State University
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2019-07-15
Enrollment: 20
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Maximum age (years): 40
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: CROSSOVER
Intervention model description: A 2 x 4 repeated measures design to determine decreases in triceps surae intramuscular tissue temperature will be used for this study. The independent variables will be the cryotherapy modalities (Game Ready® and wetted ice bag with elastic wrap) and time (baseline, 10 minutes, 20 minutes, and 30 minutes). The dependent variable will be the medial triceps surae intramuscular tissue temperature.
Primary purpose: PREVENTION

Brief summary: This study compares the tissue temperature decrease between a wetted ice bag (ice and water) with an elastic wrap to the Game Ready® treatment. The goal is to determine which one decreases the temperature the most and the fastest, which is important in immediate care treatments of a musculoskeletal injury.

Detailed description: The purpose of this study will be to determine which cryotherapy method, wetted ice bag and elastic wrap or Game Ready® set at medium pressure, decreases tissue temperature the most during a 30-minute treatment. Due to the convenience of Game Ready®, it is being used as an immediate care intervention. Findings in the literature have indicated wetted ice cools tissue temperature more than cubed or crushed ice based on the assumption that colder is better. Conversely, research on Game Ready® has revealed ice bags and slush buckets cause a greater reduction in tissue temperature compared to Game Ready®. However, no study exists comparing the effects of Game Ready® versus wetted ice on intramuscular tissue temperature reduction as immediate care interventions. Based on the results, this study may help contribute to the existing literature on tissue temperature reduction of both Game Ready® and wetted ice to determine the better modality to use for immediate care. The research questions guiding this study will be:

1. Which cryotherapy method, Game Ready® or wetted ice with elastic wrap, will be the most effective at decreasing intramuscular tissue temperature during a 30-minute application in patients aged 18-40 years old?
2. Which cryotherapy method, Game Ready® or wetted ice with elastic wrap, will achieve an intramuscular tissue temperature reduction the fastest?

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Subjects will be both male and female.
* Subjects will be between 18 and 40 years of age.
* Subjects will have no prior injury to the dominant lower leg within the past 6 months.
* Subjects will be able to speak English.
* Subjects will have less than 1 cm of adipose over the medial gastrocnemius muscle.

Exclusion Criteria:

* any current lower extremity injury, or any lower extremity injuries within the past 6 months.
* any previous history of surgery in the lower leg
* any contraindications to cryotherapy such as Raynaud's phenomenon, cold-induced urticaria, previous frostbite to the lower leg, open wounds, peripheral vascular disease, lupus, circulatory insufficiency, mayocardial ischemia, or skin infections.
* any abnormalities seen in the muscle as determined by diagnostic ultrasound.
* any allergies or sensitivities to Betadine.
* greater than 1.0cm of adipose over the medial gastrocnemius muscle (calf).

Primary outcomes:
measure: Intramuscular temperature
timeFrame: The tissue temperatures will be recorded every 5 seconds and analyzed at the baseline.
measure: Intramuscular temperature
timeFrame: The tissue temperatures will be recorded every 5 seconds and analyzed at 10 minutes.
measure: Intramuscular temperature
timeFrame: The tissue temperatures will be recorded every 5 seconds and analyzed at 20 minutes.
measure: Intramuscular temperature
timeFrame: The tissue temperatures will be recorded every 5 seconds and analyzed at 30 minutes/end time.
Secondary outcomes:
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Fargo
country: United States
facility: North Dakota State University
state: North Dakota
Study officials:
affiliation: Kara Gange
name: Kara Gange, PhD, ATC
role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
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