Virtual Physical Therapy Support for Runners
ConditionMusculoskeletal Complication
Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phaseNot applicable
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18-65
SponsorUniversity of Florida
About this trial
This study will compare standard of care of home exercise for running rehabilitation to the combined treatment of home exercise with an individually provided four-session virtual physical therapy support program intervention on pain and physical function movements (controlled dual and single leg squat and lateral hopping in individuals post running injury. These collective findings will help provide new evidence of the responses to an individually provided virtual PT interventions among runners.
Eligibility criteria
This trial accepts healthy volunteersQualifiers
Age of 18 to 65 years
Regularly running at least 12 miles a week prior to development of musculoskeletal complaint.
Free of surgical history of surgery to either lower limb
No history of major bony injury to the lower limb such as traumatic fracture, within the past 12 months
Disqualifiers
Pregnant women
< 18 or 65 years
BMI >35 kg/m2
Mental disablement (down's syndrome or dementia)
Trial design
Design model
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
VPT
BehavioralThe VPT will be comprised of weekly virtual visits with the participant for one month. During the visits, the physical therapist will review the exercises that were prescribed, adherence, provide feedback to the participant as they execute the exercises onscreen and make corrections, make any progression or adjustments to the exercises, review running cues they learned from the testing session and answer any questions. The therapist will also review any new activities that are initiated during the previous week (to control for confounders), changes in musculoskeletal pain and participation in running volume.
Treatment groups
85 Participants
are divided into 2 treatment groupsGroup A: paper-based standard care exercise programNo intervention 0 interventions
Group B: VPTExperimental treatment 1 intervention
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
1
Change from baseline numerical rating scale for pain (NRSpain) at 4 weeks
A numerical rating scale for pain (NRSpain) will be used to assess changes in lower body related musculoskeletal pain at rest (now, average over the last week) and during weight bearing activity (like walking) on a range of lowest score of 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst pain)
Time frame
Visits 6; one month post enrollment2
Change from baseline numerical rating scale for pain (NRSpain) at 6 months
A numerical rating scale for pain (NRSpain) will be used to assess changes in lower body related musculoskeletal pain at rest (now, average over the last week) and during weight bearing activity (like walking) on a range of lowest score of 0 (no pain) to 10 (worst pain)
Time frame
Visits 7; six months post enrollmentSecondary outcomes
1
Change from baseline squat quality on single leg (using dominant leg) at 4 weeks
Squat performance on the single leg (using dominant leg) will be scored on a range of scale 1 (best performance) to 3 (worst performance)
Time frame
visit 6; one month post enrollment2
Change from baseline squat quality on single leg (using dominant leg) at 6 months
Squat performance on the single leg (using dominant leg) will be scored on a range of scale 1 (best performance) to 3 (worst performance)
Time frame
visit 7; six months post enrollment3
Change from baseline squat quality on the dual leg at 4 weeks
Squat performance on the dual leg will be scored on a range of scale 1 (best performance) to 3 (worst performance)
Time frame
visit 6; one month post enrollment4
Change from baseline squat quality on the dual leg at 6 months
Squat performance on the dual leg will be scored on a range of scale 1 (best performance) to 3 (worst performance)
Time frame
visit 7; six months post enrollmentSponsors and contacts
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Source ClinicalTrials.gov