Efficacy of Kinesio Taping in Musculoskeletal Neck Pain

NCT ID: NCT04916366

Last Updated: 2021-06-10

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: UNKNOWN
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 60 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2021-06-01
• Study Completion Date: 2021-07-31

Brief Summary

The aim of this study is to compare efficacy of Kinesio taping against a conventional tape in a patient with cervical musculoskeletal pain. For this, a double-blind controlled clinical trial be carried out in patients with musculoskeletal neck pain.

Detailed Description

During the months of May to July 2021, a research assistant will contact potential participants who will be invited to participate in this study. Once they agree to participate, it will schedule for a face-to-face consultation at the university, where the main researcher will inform the study participants. Once the information sheet and informed consent will be a sign, an investigator will carry out the measurements of the variables for initial data collection in the first session. In another room, an expertise physiotherapist with experience in applying Kinesio taping will perform interventions on patients on the same day as the initial evaluation. It this way, the investigator that will assess outcomes will be blind to the treatment that each patient will receive.

At the second consultation, 4 days after the first, the same physiotherapist who applied the bandage will remove it from the patients who received it and any remains of the bandage on the skin were cleaned. For patients in the control group (nothing apply), it will be the same protocol to alter, not the double-blind. The principal investigator will perform the evaluations and data collection without knowing the intervention the patient will receive.

In a third consultation, as a follow-up (30 days after the second consultation), the collection of the same measurements and clinical variables from the patients who completed the process will repeat by the same investigator that did the outcomes' assessment.

Conditions

Musculoskeletal Neck Pain

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: TRIPLE

Study Groups

Kinesio taping

In this arm, patients will be treated with blue Kinesio taping in a muscle relaxation position during 4 days.

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

Kinesio taping

Intervention Type: OTHER

Kinesio taping in a bandage to treat musculoskeletal pain.

Placebo

In this arm, patients will be treated with conventional bandage in a muscle relaxation position during 4 days.

Group Type: PLACEBO_COMPARATOR

Conventional bandage

Intervention Type: OTHER

It will be used a conventional bandage applicated in the same neck region than kinesio taping intervention.

Control

In this arm, patients will be not treated but the outcomes will be measure after 4 days.

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

Kinesio taping

Kinesio taping in a bandage to treat musculoskeletal pain.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Conventional bandage

It will be used a conventional bandage applicated in the same neck region than kinesio taping intervention.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Presence of myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) and myofascial trigger point (MTP) in the upper trapezius muscle, according to the diagnostic criteria proposed by the American Academy of Pain Medicine(2) and the scientific community (3) a) tender point on palpation, with or without referred pain b) patient recognizes pain during tender point palpation c) at least three of the following: muscle stiffness or muscle spasm, limited range of motion in an associated joint, increase of pain with stress, palpation of tight band and / or nodule, associated with a tender point
• understand written Spanish.

Exclusion Criteria

• Neck pain of traumatic origin, due to recent surgery or causing radiculopathy
• Have been diagnosed with chronic pathology, as well as neoplastic or suspicion of it
• Have received some type of pharmacological or non-pharmacological analgesic treatment in the last 30 days.
• Pregnant or menstrual women

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 30 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

Faculty of Nurse, Physiotherapy and Podiatry. University Complutense of Madrid

Madrid, , Spain

Site Status: RECRUITING

Countries

Spain

Central Contacts

Guillermo Ceniza-Bordallo, PhD Student

Role: CONTACT

gceniza@ucm.es

+34 91 394 1517

Nursery, Physiotherapy and Podiatry Complutense University of Madrid

Role: CONTACT

webenf@enf.ucm.es

+34 91 394 1530

Facility Contacts

Guillermo Ceniza-Bordallo, PhD Student

Role: primary

gceniza@ucm.es

+34 91 394 1517

Provided Documents

Document Type: Study Protocol

View Document

Document Type: Statistical Analysis Plan

View Document

Other Identifiers

18/133-E_TFG

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id