Status:
UNKNOWN
Post-Operative Kinesio Taping Impact on Pain in Thoracotomy vs Thoracoscopy
Lead Sponsor:
Al-Quds University
Collaborating Sponsors:
Makassed Hospital
Assiut University
Conditions:
Post Operative Pain
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-64 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The project is of a comparative nature. It seeks to study pain reduction following two forms of chest surgery and compare results between both procedures. It will use kinesio taping as the studied pai...
Detailed Description
Fueled by its utmost importance, thoracic surgery has quickly evolved to produce techniques that improve its means and purposes, but most importantly fully harness its goals. Thoracic surgeries includ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Single port VATS thoracoscopies
- Patients that undergo thoracotomy or thoracoscopy at associated centers
- Patients within the age range (18-64) years.
Exclusion
- Preexisting conditions
- Certain surgical complication
- KT and analgesics-related contraindications
- Patients that offer logistic difficulties.
- Patients that suffer from recent chest trauma (Within 6 months), pre-existing chest pain
- Rib resection, pleuralesis, parietal pleura involvement in the surgery
- Surgeries with increased involvement of the chest, vertebrobasilar insufficiency
- Inflammatory diseases
- Neurologic diseases
- Congenital diseases
- Fractures, dislocations, infections
- Dural perforations, spinal cord damage with abscess development due to nerve block
- Patients who have contraindications to KT, especially those who suffer from DVT (DVT: Deep Vein Thrombosis), skin Pathologies, and diseases, especially relating to the chest area
- Patient with congestive heart failure
- Patients that experience skin sensitivity or allergy to the Kinesio taping
- Patients who undergo other forms of pain reduction therapy such as massages
- The lack of patient consent
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
January 9 2022
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
September 1 2022
Estimated Enrollment :
310 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT05200689
Start Date
January 9 2022
End Date
September 1 2022
Last Update
January 21 2022
Active Locations (5)
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1
Assiut Uniersity
Asyut, Egypt
2
Tanta University
Tanta, Egypt
3
European Institute of Oncology
Milan, Italy
4
Al-Makased Hospital
East Jerusalem, Palestinian Territories