Effect of Massage Therapy in Cortisol Level

• Register: ClinicalTrials.gov
• Last refreshed on: 25 May 2015
• Main ID: NCT02440412
• Date of registration: 01/05/2015
• Prospective Registration: No
• Primary sponsor: University of Chile
• Public title: Effect of Massage Therapy in Cortisol Level MTCL
• Scientific title: Effects of a Single Session of Massage Therapy in Salivary Cortisol Levels in Asymptomatic Persons With Administrative Tasks and / or Office Work.
• Date of first enrolment: July 2014
• Target sample size: 15
• Recruitment status: Completed
• URL: http://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT02440412
• Study type: Interventional
• Study design: Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Basic Science
• Phase: N/A

Countries of recruitment

Chile

Contacts

• Name: Rodrigo A Rojo, Msc.
• Affiliation: Physical Therapy Department, University of Chile

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Office/administrative workers of Faculty of Medicine, University of Chile.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Musculoskeletal disease or injury in spine.

- Body Mass Index over 35.

- Smoking (over three cigars at day)

- Depression.

- Pregnancy

- Corticosteroid treatment.

- Skin wound or disease.

- Intolerance to the prone position.



Age minimum: 18 Years
Age maximum: 60 Years
Gender: Both

Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied

Asymptomatic State

Intervention(s)

Other: Massage Therapy

Other: Rest in supine

Primary Outcome(s)

Change of Salivary Cortisol Level [Time Frame: All participants were measured in three different condition, one week apart one each other. In each condition, three measurements were performed, in the morning]

Secondary ID(s)

Kine015

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors