Microporous Tape and Post Surgical Scars

ConditionsMicroporous Tape Hypertrophic Scars

Trial statusNot yet recruiting

Trial phaseNot applicable

Trial typeInterventional

Biological sexAll

Age20-45

SponsorCairo University

About this trial

The aim of this study is to determine the effect of microporous taping on improving scar characteristics in post-surgical HTS.

Eligibility criteria

This trial does not accept healthy volunteers

Qualifiers

The patients' age will range from 20-45 years, and will be selected from both genders .

All patients will have hypertrophic scars after surgeries.

The general size of the scars will range from 5 to 7 cm'2

Disqualifiers

The patients who will excluded from the study including those with infected post-operative wounds .

The patients whose wounds were closed secondarily or healed by secondary intention.

patients who are keloid formers.

Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus

Trial design

Design model

Parallel

Treatments tested in this trial

Microporous tape
Other intervention
Microporous tape is a dressing tape that was discovered to have scar modulating effects. It is made up of a conformable, inextensible, nonwoven fabric manufactured from 100% viscose and coated with a layer of acrylic adhesive. It is cheap, cost-effective, readily available, and relatively affordable for post surgical patients.
Tradition physical therapy
Other intervention
Tradition physical therapy as stretching exercises and deep friction massage, Stretching is a form of physical exercise in which a specific muscle or tendon (or muscle group) is deliberately expanded and flexed in order to improve the muscle's felt elasticity and achieve comfortable muscle tone. The result is a feeling of increased muscle control, flexibility, and range of motion. Deep friction massage also known as cross friction massage, is a specific connective tissue massage which maintain the mobility within the soft tissue structures of ligament, tendon, and muscle, and prevent adherent scars from forming.

Treatment groups

44 Participants

are divided into 2 treatment groups

Group A: Study group: receive Microporous tape and traditional physical therapy treatmentActive comparator 2 interventions

Group B: Control group receive traditional therapy ( (deep friction massage and stretching exercises)Other 0 interventions

Trial outcomes

Primary outcomes

Scars pliability

A Schiotz tonometer device (Riester, Germany, 0124) is simple to use, in expensive, reliable, requires little time to maintain and does not require supply of batteries or electricity. It has a free-floating, rod-like plunger with a 5.5 gm weight attached fits inside the barrel and other weights (7.5 or 10 grams) are put that can be equipped to the plunger. A Schiotz tonometer device was used as an objective device to assess the hypertrophic scar's pliability and elasticity

Time frame

8 weeks

Locations

This trial has no locations.

Sponsors and contacts

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Cairo University

Lead sponsor

Source ClinicalTrials.gov

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