Recruiting

Icing Therapy

Sponsor:

Wilfrid Laurier University

Code:

NCT02280668

Conditions

Muscle Damage

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 24

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Icing Therapy

the eccentric muscle damage exercise

Study Details

Brief summary:

The purpose of our research is to investigate the effects of applying cold therapy, or "icing," to injured muscles in terms of strength recovery and muscle soreness amelioration following unaccustomed exercise.

Conditions

Muscle Damage

Study ID

NCT02280668

Start date

Oct, 2014

Status verified date

Oct, 2014

Completion date

Apr, 2015

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Apr, 2015

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 24

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Healthy students attending Wilfrid Laurier University with no previous history of upper body muscle damage and live in close proximity to the University so they can attend all lab sessions. Ideally they have not performed any upper body resistance training within the last 4 months.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Previous history of muscle, joint, or ligament injuries in the surrounding area of their dominant are elbow flexor region.

Study Design

Enrollment

45 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

active comparator: Control Group

Will perform the eccentric muscle damage exercise and will not perform any icing interventions post damage. These participants will be the control group.

experimental: Icing Protocol 1

Will perform the eccentric muscle damage exercise and will begin the icing intervention immediately after the muscle damage. The icing protocol will be icing the elbow flexor muscles for 10 minutes with a cold pack followed by 10 minutes with no icing and another 10 minutes of elbow flexor muscle icing. The participants will perform this protocol every day at approximately the same time for the duration of the study.

experimental: Icing Protocol 2

Will perform the eccentric muscle damage exercise and will begin the icing intervention 6 hours post muscle damage. The icing protocol will be icing the elbow flexor muscles for 10 minutes with a cold pack followed by 10 minutes with no icing and another 10 minutes of elbow flexor muscle icing. The participants will perform this protocol every day at approximately the same time for the duration of the study.

Interventions

Icing Therapy

Participants will be randomly assigned into 3 experimental groups. Icing Protocol 1 has participants apply cold packs under the supervision of the principal investigators to their elbow flexor region for 10 minutes on, 10 minutes off, followed by an additional 10 minutes on, starting at time 0. Icing Protocol 2 follows the same procedure but it begins 6 hours after the participant has completed their eccentric muscle damaging exercise and is to be done at home without the supervision of the principal investigators. Both protocols require the participants to repeat their icing procedures every 24 hours until their involvement with the study is finished, which is 7 days in duration. The third experimental group is the control group and will not participate in an icing therapy during the duration of the study.

the eccentric muscle damage exercise

Primary outcome measure

  • Peak torque strength measures determined using the CYBEX-NORM Testing and Rehabilitation System [ Time Frame: Within 7 days post eccentric muscle damage ]
  • Delayed onset muscle soreness determined using the VAS scale of perceived muscle soreness [ Time Frame: Within 7 days post eccentric muscle damage ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Christopher G Chekay

647-920-6826chek2690@mylaurier.ca

Justin D White

905-975-8017whit3820@mylaurier.ca

Locations

Wilfrid Laurier University

Recruiting

Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3C5

Contacts

Peter Tiidus, PhD

519-884-0710ptiidus@wlu.ca

Principal Investigator:

Chris G Chekay

More Information

Sponsor

Wilfrid Laurier University

Last update posted

Oct 31, 2014

Last verified

Oct, 2014

Keywords

  • muscle
  • muscle repair
  • tissue repair
  • eccentric exercise
  • force loss
  • icing
  • cold therapy
  • DOMS
  • soreness
  • recovery

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Wilfrid Laurier University on 2014-10-31.