Clinical trial NCT01730859: The Effect of Ankle Taping and Balance Exercises on Postural Stability
Official title: The Effect of Ankle Taping and Balance Exercises on Postural Stability Indices in Healthy Women
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Disturbance; Balance, Labyrinth
Proprioceptive Disorders
Keywords: Balance exercise
Ankle
Postural stability
Taping
Biodex
Lead sponsor: Zahedan University of Medical Sciences
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2012-11-21
Enrollment: 30
Sex: FEMALE
Minimum age (years): 19
Maximum age (years): 22
Standard ages: ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: SINGLE_GROUP
Primary purpose: TREATMENT

Brief summary: Both taping and balance exercises have effects on dynamic balance, so this study compared ankle taping and balance exercise on postural stability indices in healthy women. we hypothesized that both balance exercise and taping would increase stability indices but the effects of balance exercise was more greater than taping.

Detailed description: The ability to control the body in the space is a complex interaction between musculoskeletal and neural systems. This set is called postural control system. Postural control involves the control of body position in space for the dual purposes of postural stability and postural orientation. Balance process is divided into four-stage by Sullivan and Markos: mobility, stability, controlled mobility, and skill. Several types of exercise have been proposed to improve proprioception. Bout and Gahery stated that balance exercises improve neuromuscular relations and reduces the proprioception errors. They believe that those who have more proprioception difficulty may benefit more from exercise therapy.Taping is another technique to enhance proprioception. Improvement in proprioception leads to better function and reduction of disability. Kinesiotaping is being used to prevent injuries and to help curing the injury. It can also improve efficiency in sport, improve lymph and venous circulation, decrease edema, stimulate the mechanoreceptors and increase awareness of subject about the ankle position, reduces the pain and improves muscle performance

Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* having no pain in ankle joint, not having sport activity in the period of this study, healthy sensory motor function in lower limb, no history of neuromuscular disease, vertigo or any uncorrected visual problems, any kind of ankle injury or lower limb surgery, taking sedative medication, cardiovascular, neurologic, and pulmonary disease, balance problems, rheumatoid disease, psychological disease, body mass index between 17 to25.

Exclusion Criteria:

* ankle pain, allergy to tape, and not completing all interventional sessions.

Primary outcomes:
measure: Stability Index
timeFrame: 6 weeks
Secondary outcomes:
measure: zone and quadrant
timeFrame: 6 weeks
Other outcomes:
measure: BMI
timeFrame: 6 weeks
Locations:
city: Zahedan
country: Iran, Islamic Republic of
facility: School of rehabilitaion Sciences
state: Sistan and Baluchestan
Study officials:
References:
citation: Lentell G, Baas B, Lopez D, McGuire L, Sarrels M, Snyder P. The contributions of proprioceptive deficits, muscle function, and anatomic laxity to functional instability of the ankle. J Orthop Sports Phys Ther. 1995 Apr;21(4):206-15. doi: 10.2519/jospt.1995.21.4.206.