Whole Body Vibration and Exercise in Knee Pain

NCT ID: NCT04031248

Last Updated: 2020-11-03

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

30 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2019-09-02

Study Completion Date

2019-11-30

Brief Summary

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The present study will consist of evaluating the effect of applying an exercise protocol on a vibratory platform in order to provoke immediate influences in the affected systems and in the quality of life of the patients with patella-femoral pain.

Detailed Description

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Knee pain is a common condition with a high prevalence in the general population, being femoro-patellar pain one of the most common forms of knee pain (Crossley et al., 2016a). Its incidence ranges between 5.1% and 14.9% and its prevalence is between 16.3% and 28.9% in adolescents (Smith et al., 2018). Femoro-patellar pain is described as diffuse pain in the anterior area of the knee not caused by a traumatic action, which is aggravated when performing squats, running, going up and down stairs or sitting for a long time The recommended conservative treatment for this condition according to the 2016 Manchester and Australia 2017consensus is the therapeutic exercise, combining knee and hip exercises (Crossley et al., 2016b), mainly quadriceps and gluteus medius (Collins et al., 2018).

INTERVENTION All participants will be assessed at baseline and at the end of treatment (discharge) by a blinded investigator.

The program will consist of a routine of 18 exercises that will be executed where the greatest neuromuscular recruitment is sought. Most exercises are dynamic and isotonic. It is structured following the scheduled phases (ACSM, 2013) of warm-up, development and return to calm or stretching. The total duration of the program is 22 minutes, keeping the general lines of high-intensity aerobic interval training, which establishes a rest period at least equal to that of work.

The treatment protocol will consist of 11 sessions applied in 4 weeks under an intervention regime of weeks 3 sessions, with a duration per session of 22 minutes, which will be supervised by a physiotherapist with more than 15 years of clinical experience.

The experimental group will develop the exercise program on the whole body vibration platform, and control group on the switched-off vibration device (without any vibration stimuli)

DESIGN AND STATISTICS

This study will be a randomized clinical trial with a control group. It will consider an alpha or type I error of 95% and a beta or type II error of 80%, with a hypothesis to a tail. The randomized controlled trial will be performed with a single-blind (the evaluator who evaluated the outcome measures remained blinded to the participants' allocation group). The sample will be randomly selected through the randomized.com program among the patients that meet the inclusion criteria that we will be described later. Participants will be distributed equally between the control group and the experimental group.

The research protocol will be carried out in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki statement of ethics, legal and regulatory principles to provide guidance for research related to health in humans. The CONSORT guidelines have been the reference to design the Project, the ad will be used to make the final report.

Conditions

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Patello Femoral Syndrome

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

DOUBLE

Investigators Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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WBV group (experimental)

Participants in the experimental group will follow a program that will consist of a routine of 18 exercises that will be executed where the greatest neuromuscular recruitment is sought. Most exercises are dynamic and isotonic. It is structured following the scheduled phases (ACSM, 2013) of warm-up, development and return to calm or stretching. The total duration of the program is 22 minutes, keeping the general lines of high-intensity aerobic interval training, which establishes a rest period at least equal to that of work.

The treatment protocol will consist of 11 sessions applied in 4 weeks under an intervention regime of weeks 3 sessions, with a duration per session of 22 minutes, which will be supervised by a physiotherapist with more than 15 years of clinical experience.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Whole body vibration

Intervention Type DEVICE

In this study an axial vibratory platform will be used: POWER-PLATE pro 5 AIRdaptive TM HP®. This device is reviewed annually by the technical unit of the company itself and complies with the international regulations that regulate the Medical Devices \[Devices Directive (MDD) 93/42 / EEC (ISO 2631. 2011, Powerplate.com, 2013)\]. The vibration will be administered with 2 mm of amplitude and 40 Hz of frequency.

Exercise group (control)

Control subjects will perform the same exercise program without whole-body vibration.

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

EXERCISE group

Intervention Type OTHER

The program will consist of a routine of 18 exercises that will be executed where the greatest neuromuscular recruitment is sought. Most exercises are dynamic and isotonic. It is structured following the scheduled phases (ACSM, 2013) of warm-up, development and return to calm or stretching. The total duration of the program is 22 minutes, keeping the general lines of high-intensity aerobic interval training, which establishes a rest period at least equal to that of work. The treatment protocol will consist of 11 sessions applied in 4 weeks under an intervention regime of weeks 3 sessions, with a duration per session of 22 minutes, which will be supervised by a physiotherapist with more than 15 years of clinical experience.

Interventions

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Whole body vibration

In this study an axial vibratory platform will be used: POWER-PLATE pro 5 AIRdaptive TM HP®. This device is reviewed annually by the technical unit of the company itself and complies with the international regulations that regulate the Medical Devices \[Devices Directive (MDD) 93/42 / EEC (ISO 2631. 2011, Powerplate.com, 2013)\]. The vibration will be administered with 2 mm of amplitude and 40 Hz of frequency.

Intervention Type DEVICE

EXERCISE group

The program will consist of a routine of 18 exercises that will be executed where the greatest neuromuscular recruitment is sought. Most exercises are dynamic and isotonic. It is structured following the scheduled phases (ACSM, 2013) of warm-up, development and return to calm or stretching. The total duration of the program is 22 minutes, keeping the general lines of high-intensity aerobic interval training, which establishes a rest period at least equal to that of work. The treatment protocol will consist of 11 sessions applied in 4 weeks under an intervention regime of weeks 3 sessions, with a duration per session of 22 minutes, which will be supervised by a physiotherapist with more than 15 years of clinical experience.

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Adult patients with pain in the anterior aspect of the knee.
* Participants with a self-reported pain intensity ≥ 30 mm on the Visual Analogue Scale

Exclusion Criteria

* any contraindication for the use of training with whole-body vibration;
* to have received knee injections of corticosteroids or hyaluronic acid;
* cognition or impaired communication;
* to be involved in an ongoing medical-legal dispute.
Minimum Eligible Age

40 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

MALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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University of Seville

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Sergio Hernandez Sanchez

Lecturer

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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A360 Heath and Sport Clinic

Seville, , Spain

Site Status

Countries

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Spain

References

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Yanez-Alvarez A, Bermudez-Pulgarin B, Hernandez-Sanchez S, Albornoz-Cabello M. Effects of exercise combined with whole body vibration in patients with patellofemoral pain syndrome: a randomised-controlled clinical trial. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2020 Aug 28;21(1):582. doi: 10.1186/s12891-020-03599-2.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 32859183 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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0916

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id