Clinical trials: Contractions
Muscle Oxygenation
Evaluation of Muscle Oxygen With MRI
Demonstration of soft tissue hypoxia on MRI using external compression and muscle contraction.
- Trial name
- NCT07638384
- Testing
- Compression and Contraction
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 75 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Healthy
Reference Values for the One Repetition Maximum Test of Knee Extensors for Brazilians.
Muscle strength is important for health and can affect how well people live, even increasing the risk of death in adults and older people.
- Trial name
- NCT06648421
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 72 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Universidade Estadual de Londrina
Premature Birth, Premature Labor
Electrical Inhibition (EI): A Preliminary Study To Inhibit Preterm Labor And Preterm Birth
An electrical-inhibition (EI) uterine pacemaker device similar to an electrical heart pacemaker delivers a weak electrical current to the human uterus during active preterm labor to rapidly and safely inhibit the unwanted…
- Trial name
- EI (NCT02569216)
- Testing
- Electrical Inhibition (EI)
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- NYU Langone Health
Premature Atrial Contractions, Premature Ventricular Contractions
Coffee and Real-time Atrial and Ventricular Ectopy
Atrial fibrillation (AF) and heart failure (HF) are morbid, costly, and incompletely understood diseases that have reached epidemic proportions worldwide.
- Trial name
- CRAVE (NCT03671759)
- Testing
- Start: On Caffeine, Start: Off Caffeine
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 108 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of California, San Francisco
Athletes
The Acute Effects of Combined Caffeine and Sodium Bicarbonate Consumption on Isometric Mid-thigh Pull
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of isolated and combined caffeine and sodium bicarbonate consumption on acute isometric mid-thigh pull (IMTP) strength, and verify whether they are cumulative, neutral or…
- Trial name
- NCT05883046
- Testing
- Performance-Enhancing Substances, Baseline (Control)
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 19 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Bozok University
Low Back Pain
Manipulation Effects on Abdominal Muscles
The purpose of this study is to understand how different physical therapy interventions affect the use of certain abdominal muscles in patients with low back pain.
- Trial name
- NCT01745939
- Testing
- Lumbar Manipulation
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 12 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Exercise-induced Muscle Damage
Effects of Inter-Set Rest Intervals on Muscle Damage After Flywheel Exercise in Untrained Men (RCT)
This randomized parallel-group clinical trial will compare the acute effects of three different inter-set rest intervals during a single lower-limb flywheel resistance exercise session in untrained men.
- Trial name
- NCT07679971
- Testing
- Flywheel resistance exercise with 1-minute inter-set rest, Flywheel resistance exercise with 2-minute inter-set rest, Flywheel resistance exercise with 3-minute inter-set rest
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Federal University of Vicosa
Kinesio Taping Effects on Knee Extension Force
Kinesio Taping Effects on Knee Extension Force Among Soccer Players
Kinesio Taping (KT) is used often, but there is little scientific information on its effect. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effects of KT on knee extension force among soccer players.
- Trial name
- NCT02167126
- Testing
- Kinesio Taping
- Where
- Brazil
- Volunteers
- 34 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Franca
Preterm Contractions
Uterine Contractions Under Blue Light
The objective in the current study is to test the hypothesis that nocturnal uterine contractions in preterm women can be suppressed by brief ocular exposure to blue light.The Olcese lab at Florida State University identified a…
- Trial name
- NCT03691740
- Testing
- Ocular light
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of South Florida
Postural Balance
Effects of Two Compression Socks on Balance and Ankle Stability in Healthy Adults
This randomized study will compare a novel tensioning compression sock with a commercially available elastic foot and ankle compression sock in healthy adults.
- Trial name
- Not provided (NCT07812454)
- Testing
- Novel Tensioning Compression Sock, Elastic Compression Sock
- Volunteers
- 52 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Central Florida
Subluxation of Joint of Lumbar Spine
The Effects of Spinal Manipulation on Central Nervous System Activity Measured by Reflexive Calf Muscle Recruitment
This study investigated the effects of spinal manipulation on central nervous system activity. The presence of postactivation potentiation, an increase in muscular force production following prior muscular contractions, was…
- Trial name
- NCT02848456
- Testing
- Spinal Manipulation, Max Voluntary Isometric Contraction, SM+MVIC
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Grant Sanders
Pelvic Floor Muscle Weakness
What is the Best Verbal Instruction for Contraction the Pelvic Floor Muscles?
The aim of this study is to T to compare the effectiveness of producing a pelvic floor muscle contraction by different verbal instruction.
- Trial name
- NCT03400540
- Testing
- verbal instruction
- Where
- Israel
- Volunteers
- 56 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Haifa
Uterine Atony, Uterine Tone Disorders
Intravenous Versus Intramuscular Administration of Methylergonovine for Uterine Contraction in Cesarean Sections
Insufficient uterine tone resulting in atony can potentiate hemorrhage and adverse outcomes for the parturient. Oxytocin is the first pharmacologic agent used, followed by methylergonovine, carboprost, and misoprostol.
- Conditions
- Uterine Atony, Uterine Tone Disorders, Postpartum Hemorrhage
- Trial name
- NCT03303235
- Testing
- Methylergonovine
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Johns Hopkins University
Contraction of Pelvic Floor Muscle Using EMS
User Evaluation in Healthy Volunteers to Verify no Pelvic Floor Contraction is Stimulated When the Modified Neurotech Vital Device is Used Compared to the Neurotech Vital Device
This user evaluation study is to verify that the Modified Neurotech Vital Device does not stimulate the pelvic floor muscles compared with the Neurotech Vital Device.
- Trial name
- BMR-12-1002 (NCT01614730)
- Testing
- Modified Neurotech Vital Device, Neurotech Vital Device
- Volunteers
- 10 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Bio-Medical Research, Ltd.
Muscle Fatigue
Effect of the Different Methods of Kinesiology Taping on the Muscle Contraction Performance of Fatigued Biceps Brachii
Recently, kinesiology tape is a common intervention in clinic and sport. According to the theory mentioned by the founder (Dr. Kenzo Kase), the elasticity of kinesiology tape has different effects from different taping skill.
- Trial name
- NCT04487184
- Testing
- Kinesiology taping
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 24 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Taoyuan General Hospital
Muscle Strength, Sport Injury
Relationship Between the Functional Movement Screen and Isokinetic Muscle Strength of Knee in Different Sport Branches
This study was conducted to demonstrate the correlation between the functional movement screen and the isokinetic muscle strength with objective data.
- Conditions
- Muscle Strength, Sport Injury, Muscle Contraction
- Trial name
- NCT05964556
- Testing
- Functional Movement Screen (FMS), Isokinetic Muscle Evulation of Knee Muscles
- Where
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Volunteers
- 60 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Recep Tayyip Erdogan University Training and Research Hospital
Labor
Impact of Prophylactic Ephedrine on Fetal Heart Tracing and Uterine Tetanic Contraction After CSE
Labor analgesia is an important component of the care of laboring patients. A known side effect of combined spinal and epidural anesthesia (a type of labor analgesia) is an increased incidence of category II fetal heart rate…
- Trial name
- NCT05873218
- Testing
- Ephedrine
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 100 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Abdominal Muscles
Abdominal Electromyographic Control in Vojta Therapy
A randomized clinical trial on a cohort of healthy subjects of legal age, both sexes, recruited from the university community and who will be randomly distributed into two groups (experimental and control).
- Trial name
- NCT04818879
- Testing
- Vojta, Control
- Where
- Spain
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- University of Salamanca
Frail Elderly Syndrome
Protocols and Guidelines for the Use of Digital Twins in Frail Older People
The Proto-Aging study aims to define experimental protocols and guidelines to enable the development of musculoskeletal models (digital twins) of elderly people, with the ultimate goal to comprehensively characterize frail elders…
- Trial name
- Proto-Aging (NCT05854316)
- Testing
- Comprehensive Biomechanical assessment
- Where
- Italy
- Volunteers
- 25 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli
Muscle Injury
The Effects of PeptiStrong and Exercise to Enhance Muscle Strength in Young Subjects
A randomised, double-blind, placebo controlled study to evaluate the effect of PeptiStrong supplementation in conjunction with an exercise program to enhance muscle strength and endurance in young male and female subjects.
- Trial name
- NCT05946746
- Testing
- PeptiStrong
- Where
- Canada
- Volunteers
- 72 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Nuritas Ltd