Simulator of Pompage Technique for Physiotherapists

Simulator of Pompage Technique for Education and Training of Physiotherapists

Parameterize the Pompage technique with an anatomical model cervical region to simulate specific procedures. Quantify the times, displacements, and facilitate the training of students and professional of physical therapy.

Study Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Musculoskeletal Pain; Contracture
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: Simulator's construction; Other: Model Features; Other: Parameterization technique; Other: Simulator training; Other: Training Evaluation

Detailed Description

Manual techniques are taught and trained with practical demonstration without technology support to measure them, so they are difficult to reproduce. This difficulty increases in Pompage technique because the student is not able to estimate the displacement on the skin. In this research, to parameterize and train the technique was developed and validated an anatomical model of the cervical region, with silicone and latex rubber. The anatomical model simulates the soft tissues and a plastic resin structure represents the cervical spine bone. An optical sensor was used to measure the displacements performed on simulated skin versus time. The Likert scale was used for assessing the similarity of the anatomical model relative to the size, shape, texture, elasticity and displacement of the skin as well as the curvature of the cervical spine. Five experienced professionals (GP) in the technical performed five series of Pompage technique. With the mean of data collected were determined benchmarks for technical and implemented in a standard guide to train the volunteers. Twenty-six volunteers (GE) with no experience performed the Pompage technique, with the anatomical model following the standard guide. A physical therapist (VE) was selected to evaluate the volunteers (GE) before and after training in the simulator.

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 72
• Phase: Not Applicable

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 60 years (ADULT)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: Yes
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

• no history of cervical trauma (GT and VF)
• Do not have dermatitis in the cervical region (GT and VF)
• recurrent migraines (GT and VF)
• no prior knowledge of Pompage technique (GE).
• minimum 5 years experience of applying the Pompage technique (GP and VE).

Exclusion Criteria:

• report pain in the cervical region (GT and VF)
• irritations in the cervical region (GT and VF)

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
• Interventional Model: PARALLEL
• Masking: NONE

Number of Arms

5

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
EXPERIMENTAL: Simulator's construction; To build the simulator was selected a volunteer (VF) as a model. This volunteer had no complaints of pain or trauma to the cervical region. This region was used to collect the displacement of the skin and cytometry neck.	Other: Simulator's construction; Model to build the mold for the simulator; Other Names: VF
EXPERIMENTAL: Model Features; Thirty-nine volunteers (GT) were selected men and women aged over 18 years without history of trauma in the cervical region in order to determine the characteristics of the model: skin elasticity and cirtometry neck.	Other: Model Features; Volunteers to determine the elasticity of the skin and cirtometry neck to compare with the simulator.; Other Names: GT
EXPERIMENTAL: Parameterization technique; Five physiotherapists (GP) with at least 5 years of experience in the technique were selected to perform the technique on the simulator and complete a questionnaire in order to evaluate the texture and skin elasticity, the curvature and size of the cervical spine format. They scored these items from the Likert scale. After evaluation they used the simulator to generate a standard guide training.	Other: Parameterization technique; Evaluation of the simulator features and parameterization of the Pompage technique in the simulator.; Other Names: GP
EXPERIMENTAL: Simulator training; Twenty-six volunteers (GE) were selected, men and women, aged over 18 years without prior knowledge of the technique for simulator training.	Other: Simulator training; Training of pompage technique using the simulator.; Other Names: GE
EXPERIMENTAL: Training Evaluation; A physical therapist (VE) was selected to evaluate the volunteers (GE) before and after training in the simulator.	Other: Training Evaluation; Evaluation of volunteers from GE group before and after training with the simulator.; Other Names: VE

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Displacement of the skin	The displacement of the skin (mm) of the volunteers VF and GT was measured to validated the simulator. The volunteers GE used the simulator and the displacement of the skin of simulator was measured during the Pompage technique.	5 days
Pressure	The volunteers GE used the simulator and the pressure (mm/Hg ) on the simulator was measured during the Pompage technique.	5 days

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
Cytometry neck	The cytometry neck (cm) of the volunteers VF and GT was measure to validated the simulator.	1 minute

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: University of Mogi das Cruzes

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start: February 1, 2008
• Primary Completion (ACTUAL): April 1, 2008
• Study Completion (ACTUAL): February 1, 2012

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: March 9, 2016
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 28, 2016
• First Posted (ESTIMATE): November 29, 2016

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (ESTIMATE): November 29, 2016
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: November 28, 2016
• Last Verified: November 1, 2016

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Keywords: Pompage
• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pain; Neurologic Manifestations; Joint Diseases; Musculoskeletal Diseases; Muscular Diseases; Musculoskeletal Pain; Contracture
• Other Study ID Numbers: 0121.0.237.00007

Plan for Individual participant data (IPD)

• Plan to Share Individual Participant Data (IPD)?: YES