Performance Evaluation on the Upper Limb Closed Kinetic Chain Test After Scapular Elastic Taping on Jiu Jitsu Practitioners

Evaluate if the elastic tapping application on the scapular region can interferer immediately on the performance during the upper limb closed kinetic chain test on jiu jitsu practitioners.

Study Overview

• Status: Unknown
• Conditions: Healthy
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Elastic Tapping

Detailed Description

Since the 2008 Olympic Games the elastic tapping has become popularized and used in many different professional and amateur practitioners of physical activity. However, the effects that their creators claim to have, the improvement of proprioception, muscular activity and pain has not yet been proved.

There is a lack of studies on the literature involving the using of elastic tapping and clinical functional tests, evaluating the differences on groups that where and where not submitted to the tape. The use of the bandage on healthy population has enhanced force sense in grip strength, and may increase the range of motion of the lower trunk. When applied on the triceps surae there was no increase on the height size of the jump task.

The purpose of this study is to analyze if the elastic tapping application on healthy practitioners of jiu jitsu can improve their performance on upper limb closed kinetic chain test.

It will be a randomized controlled trial with the CONSORT bases with 64 participants that will be divided into two groups:

• Control Group that will perform the upper limb closed kinetic chain test without any tapping and then tested again after applied a placebo tapping that will be placed vertically, against the orientation of the muscles that retrench the scapulas on the trunk.
• Intervention Group that will perform the upper limb closed kinetic chain test without any tapping and then tested again after applied a specific elastic tapping that is indicated to increase the activation of the lower and medium trapezius and the rhomboids, muscles responsible for retrench the scapula on the trunk.

The improvement of the test is upon the number of touches performed by the volunteer on a stated period of time (15 seconds). The best score of touches of three times trials will be taken as the mark of individuals of both groups, before and after utilizing the placebo and intervention kinesio tappings.

The investigators hypotheses is that after applying the tapping that improve the activation of the muscles of the scapulas, the practitioner will be able to improve the number of touches on the test.

Results will be expressed as hazard ratios (HR) with their respective confidence intervals at 95% and adopting α = 0.05. All analyzes will be performed by SPSS version 17.0.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Anticipated): 64
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Brazil
  • SP
    • São Paulo, SP, Brazil, 04039-001
      • Recruiting
      • Universidade Federal de Sao Paulo
      • Contact: Universidade São Paulo; Email: cete@uol.com.br

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 50 years (Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: Male

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• Practitioner of jiu jitsu for at least 12 months,
• No complain of pain on the upper limb on the last seven days.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Any episode of fracture on the upper limb (shoulder, elbow and wrist) on the last six months,
• To have any systemic inflammatory disease that restrains the subject of performing the test

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Allocation: N/A
• Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
• Masking: Double

Number of Arms

1

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Elastic Tapping	Other: Elastic Tapping

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Difference on the number of touches at the upper limb closed kinetic chain test	The subject will perform the test initially without the elastic taping and the number of touches he made will be marked. After waiting 10 minutes one of the elastic tapes (the sham or the interventional) will be applied and the practicer will perform the test again. The number of touches will be marked once more. It will be analyzed if there were any difference on the number of touches between the participants of the groups sham/interventional.	Procedure consist in a 20-minute intervention and patients are not further followed

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Federal University of São Paulo

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: March 1, 2012
• Primary Completion (Anticipated): November 1, 2012
• Study Completion (Anticipated): May 1, 2013

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: October 31, 2012
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 11, 2012
• First Posted (Estimate): November 15, 2012

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Estimate): November 15, 2012
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 11, 2012
• Last Verified: November 1, 2012

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: upper limb; functional test; elastic tape
• Other Study ID Numbers: CAAE 06221012.9.0000.5505