Clinical trials: Muscle Contraction
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
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
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
Healthy
Lower Limb Mechanical Characteristics: Effect on Running Mechanics and Energetics
Inter-individual variability in energetic cost of running may be partly explained by lower limbs mechanical characteristics. The transposition of muscle mechanical model with two components (contractile and elastic) to the whole…
- Trial name
- NCT00522561
- Testing
- energetic and non invasive limb mechanical measurements
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 20 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne
Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy
Athlete's Heart or Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy: Contribution of Exercise Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance (CMR)
Prospective, nonrandomized, single-center, comparative study to define if right ventricular (RV) contractile reserve assessed by exercise CMR helps to improve the differential diagnosis between pathological and physiological…
- Trial name
- CA2VD (NCT05024708)
- Testing
- Cardiac exercises and tests
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 4 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Rennes University Hospital
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
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
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
Acute Muscle Damage Following Resistance Exercise
Acute Muscle Damage After Eccentric Quasi-Isometric Exercise of the Elbow Flexors
This study compared the acute muscle damage responses of the elbow flexor muscles following two types of resistance exercise: eccentric quasi-isometric (EQI) exercise and traditional eccentric (ECC) exercise.
- Trial name
- NCT07431879
- Testing
- Eccentric Quasi-Isometric Exercise, Traditional Eccentric Exercise
- Where
- Taiwan
- Volunteers
- 30 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Chinese Culture University
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD)
Force Control in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
Maximal muscle strength is one of the most commonly assessed neuromuscular parameters in people with COPD due to its accessibility and relevance for prescribing an appropriate workload for resistance training.
- Trial name
- NEUROTIGUE F (NCT06871670)
- Testing
- Submaximal isometric contractions of knee extensors
- Where
- France
- Volunteers
- 36 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Centre Hospitalier Intercommunal de Toulon La Seyne sur Mer
Healthy
Analysis of Heart Muscle Function Following Exercise in Patients With Heart Disease
This study is designed to examine the blood flow, the nutrition, and the beating function of the heart under different conditions. Patients with narrowed coronary arteries my have restricted blood flow to the heart.
- Trial name
- NCT00001528
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 80 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI)
Lung Cancer, Surgery
CMR Right Ventricular Contractile Reserve Following Lung Resection
Feasibility study investigating CMR dobutamine stress testing before and after lung resection
- Conditions
- Lung Cancer, Surgery, Anesthesia
- Trial name
- NCT06465277
- Testing
- Dobutamine stress CMR, Cardiac biomarker sample
- Where
- United Kingdom
- Volunteers
- 42 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Belfast Health and Social Care Trust