Efficacy of Tecar Device With Exercises in Ankle Sprain

NCT ID: NCT06934629

Last Updated: 2025-04-18

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 42 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2025-04-15
• Study Completion Date: 2025-06-30

Brief Summary

The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the effect of applying TECAR therapy during active therapeutic exercises on pain, ankle dynamic balance, proprioception, and daily function in patients with acute ankle sprain.

the main questions it aims to answer are:

• Does there is a significant effect of applying TECAR therapy during active exercise after acute lateral ankle sprain on Pain?
• Does there is a significant effect of applying TECAR therapy during active exercise after acute lateral ankle sprain on balance?
• Does there is a significant effect of applying TECAR therapy during active exercise after acute lateral ankle sprain on proprioception?
• Does there is a significant effect of applying TECAR therapy during active exercise after acute lateral ankle sprain on daily function? The patients will be randomly divided into two groups. The control group (A) will receive the conventional therapy which is ankle and subtalar ROM in a pain-free range, calf muscle stretch, ankle strengthening exercises against resistance bands in all directions, weight-bearing exercise, forward lunges, bilateral and unilateral squats, bilateral and unilateral heel raises against bodyweight resistance, and balance training. The experiment group (B) will receive conventional therapy with TECAR therapy application during active therapeutic exercises.

Treatment will be for 4 weeks with 2 sessions per week. TECAR application will be 20 mins per session (10 mins capacitive and 10 mins resistive).

To the best of the researchers' knowledge, no study has proved the effects of applying TECAR therapy during active therapeutic exercises after an acute lateral ankle sprain has yet been done. Thus, the purpose of the present study was to prove if there an effect of applying TECAR therapy during active therapeutic exercises included in the conventional physiotherapy (PRICE with therapeutic exercises) and conventional physiotherapy alone on pain, ankle dynamic balance, proprioception, and daily function in subjects with an acute lateral ankle sprain.

Conditions

Ankle Sprain; TECAR Therapy; TECAR Therapy Efficacy in the Treatment of Ankle Sprain; Ankle Dynamic Balance; Ankle Pain; Ankle Proprioception

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: FACTORIAL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: SINGLE

Study Groups

TECAR therapy group

traditional therapeutic exercises for ankle sprain and TECAR therapy application during exercises .

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

TECAR therapy

Intervention Type: DEVICE

TECAR application will be 20 mins per session (10 mins capacitive and 10 mins resistive) during ankle and subtalar ROM in a pain-free range, calf muscle stretch, ankle strengthening exercises against resistance bands in all directions, weight-bearing exercise, forward lunges, bilateral and unilateral squats, bilateral and unilateral heel raises against bodyweight resistance, and balance training.

Conventional therapy group

traditional therapeutic exercises for ankle sprain

Group Type: ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

therapeutic exercises

Intervention Type: OTHER

the conventional therapy which is ankle and subtalar ROM in a pain-free range, calf muscle stretch, ankle strengthening exercises against resistance bands in all directions, weight-bearing exercise, forward lunges, bilateral and unilateral squats, bilateral and unilateral heel raises against bodyweight resistance, and balance training.

Interventions

TECAR therapy

TECAR application will be 20 mins per session (10 mins capacitive and 10 mins resistive) during ankle and subtalar ROM in a pain-free range, calf muscle stretch, ankle strengthening exercises against resistance bands in all directions, weight-bearing exercise, forward lunges, bilateral and unilateral squats, bilateral and unilateral heel raises against bodyweight resistance, and balance training.

Intervention Type: DEVICE

therapeutic exercises

the conventional therapy which is ankle and subtalar ROM in a pain-free range, calf muscle stretch, ankle strengthening exercises against resistance bands in all directions, weight-bearing exercise, forward lunges, bilateral and unilateral squats, bilateral and unilateral heel raises against bodyweight resistance, and balance training.

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• Gender will be male and female.
• Age from 20-40 years old.
• Grade | and || lateral ankle sprain.
• Patients who will be diagnosed and referred by orthopedic surgeon.
• acute stage of lateral ankle sprain.
• BMI ≤ 30.
• Positive confirming tests.

Exclusion Criteria

• Ankle fractures such as talus bone fracture, tibia fracture, ankle dislocation.
• Unwilling to continue treatment.
• Contraindications to use TECAR therapy, such as pregnancy, the presence of malignant tissue, tumors, in the ankle, and electrical devices implanted in the body.
• Grade ||| ankle sprain.
• Systematic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis.
• Recently received intra-steroid injection
• Pain exacerbation during the intervention.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 20 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 40 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Cairo University

OTHER

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Asmaa Morsy Elsayed Ali Morsy

resident physiotherapist registered for master degree

Responsibility Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

Andalusia hospital in Alexandria

Alexandria, , Egypt

Countries

Egypt

Central Contacts

Asmaa M Elsayed, student of master's degree

Role: CONTACT

asmaamorsy404@gmail.com

+201066744799

Facility Contacts

Asmaa Morsy

Role: primary

asmaamorsy404@gmail.com

01066744799

Other Identifiers

P.T.REC/012/005596

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id