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1Facultad Medicina Fundación H.A. Barcelo, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2UNAHUR, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 3Universidad Favaloro, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Background: Muscle strains are frequent in sports, mostly in soccer. Recent epidemiological studies showed that these lesions represent more than 30% of the total. A professional football team suffer an average of 12 muscle strains per season
Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of capacitive radiofrequency on pain and hematoma echogenicity in muscle strains
Methods: Subjects with a muscle strain were evaluated before and after a single 5 minutes treatment with capacitive radiofrequency (Vip-Electromedicina®). A diagnostic ultrasound (Mindray DP-10), with a 7.5 MHz linear probe was used to obtain the images. ImageJ software was used to process the images with the histogram algorithm (H) for determining the echogenicity. The Visual Analog Scale (VAS) was used to assess pain variation
Results: A n=11 met all the criteria and were included in this work. The results showed that H-pre: 26471.64 +/- 10490.29; H-pos: 32661.67 +/- 10621.86 (p= 0.0140, considered significant); VAS-pre: 55.95 +/- 25.39; VAS-pos: 33.95 +/- 16.05 (p=0.0048, considered very significant)
Conclusion(s): The results suggest that capacitive radiofrequency is effective in achieving an analgesic effect in acute muscle strains. Changes in echogenicity were also observed, suggesting a hematoma reabsorption. A bigger number of subjects is suggested for future works
Implications: Muscle strains are very frequent in sports, especially in soccer. Capacitive radiofrequency is a promising intervention for archiving an early recovery although the evidence of its effects is poor yet.
Keywords: Muscle strains, sports, radiofrequency
Funding acknowledgements: This work has been supported by Instituto Universitario Fundación H.A. Barceló.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of capacitive radiofrequency on pain and hematoma echogenicity in muscle strains
Methods: Subjects with a muscle strain were evaluated before and after a single 5 minutes treatment with capacitive radiofrequency (Vip-Electromedicina®). A diagnostic ultrasound (Mindray DP-10), with a 7.5 MHz linear probe was used to obtain the images. ImageJ software was used to process the images with the histogram algorithm (H) for determining the echogenicity. The Visual Analog Scale (VAS) was used to assess pain variation
Results: A n=11 met all the criteria and were included in this work. The results showed that H-pre: 26471.64 +/- 10490.29; H-pos: 32661.67 +/- 10621.86 (p= 0.0140, considered significant); VAS-pre: 55.95 +/- 25.39; VAS-pos: 33.95 +/- 16.05 (p=0.0048, considered very significant)
Conclusion(s): The results suggest that capacitive radiofrequency is effective in achieving an analgesic effect in acute muscle strains. Changes in echogenicity were also observed, suggesting a hematoma reabsorption. A bigger number of subjects is suggested for future works
Implications: Muscle strains are very frequent in sports, especially in soccer. Capacitive radiofrequency is a promising intervention for archiving an early recovery although the evidence of its effects is poor yet.
Keywords: Muscle strains, sports, radiofrequency
Funding acknowledgements: This work has been supported by Instituto Universitario Fundación H.A. Barceló.
Topic: Electrophysical & isothermal agents; Musculoskeletal: lower limb; Electrophysical & isothermal agents
Ethics approval required: Yes
Institution: School of Medicine. H.A. Barcelo
Ethics committee: Instituto Universitario Fundación H.A. Barceló
Ethics number: 11212014
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