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Behavioural Intervention

Moderately Painful Massage for Healthy Subjects

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Led By Abigail Wilson
Research Sponsored by University of Central Florida
Eligibility Criteria Checklist
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Must have
• pain-free
Be between 18 and 65 years old
Timeline
Screening 3 weeks
Treatment Varies
Follow Up ppt is applied between minutes 1, 2, 3, and 4 of massage. ppt is also applied at minutes 1,3,5,10,15 after massage. a higher ppt indicates a lessening of pain sensitivity.
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Study Summary

Massage is a common rehabilitation treatment for musculoskeletal pain. Prior studies indicate massage applied with a deep pressure that induces a moderate amount of pain produces a lessening of pain sensitivity compared to light touch, pain free massage. The investigators now aim to investigate how long pain sensitivity changes last after 4 minutes of moderately painful massage and determine factors that help predict who displays a lessening of pain sensitivity.

Eligible Conditions
  • Healthy Subjects
  • Pressure Pain Threshold
  • Massage

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

You may be eligible if you check “Yes” for the criteria below

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks
Treatment ~ Varies
Follow Up ~applied before massage
This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and applied before massage for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

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Primary outcome measures
Change in Pressure Pain Threshold
Secondary outcome measures
Conditioned Pain Modulation
Temporal Summation

Trial Design

1Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Group I: Moderately Painful MassageExperimental Treatment1 Intervention
Participants will be seated in a chair with his or her shirt on. Participants will receive 60 seconds of manual pressure applied to the myofascial trigger point identified in the participant's upper back. The researcher's thumb or index finger will apply a deep manual pressure such that the participant rates the pain = 50/100 on a 101-point numeric pain rating scale with 0 indicating no pain and 100 indicating the most severe pain imaginable. The participant will be asked to rate his or her pain during the massage so the pressure may be adjusted to maintain the 50/100 related pain. Massage will be applied for 60 seconds, 4 times for a total contact time of 240 seconds. During each 30 second break in which manual pressure is released, Pressure Pain Threshold (PPT) to the foot will be examined. PPT will be assessed 2 times immediately after each of the 4 massage applications.

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Who is running the clinical trial?

University of Central FloridaLead Sponsor
77 Previous Clinical Trials
1,096,954 Total Patients Enrolled
Abigail WilsonPrincipal InvestigatorUCF
3 Previous Clinical Trials
148 Total Patients Enrolled

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~7 spots leftby Mar 2025