16
Participants
Start Date
May 11, 2017
Primary Completion Date
June 30, 2018
Study Completion Date
June 30, 2018
Exclusively ice pack
Each subject will receive an experimental intervention of exclusively 500 grams of crushed ice. The intervention will last 20 minutes, and the order of application, expressed in % of water X ice, will be according to the randomization (realized in the first day). The pack will be wrapped in a band for improvement of the contac area. The subject will be asked to mark his pain level on the visual analogue scale (no pain score of 0 and pain as bad as it could be score of 10) every minute until the total time of the intervention.
Ice pack added 10% of water
Each subject will receive an experimental intervention of ice pack added to 50 mL of water. The intervention will last 20 minutes, and the order of application, expressed in % of water X ice, will be according to the randomization (realized in the first day). The pack will be wrapped in a band for improvement of the contac area. The subject will be asked to mark his pain level on the visual analogue scale (no pain score of 0 and pain as bad as it could be score of 10) every minute until the total time of the intervention.
Ice pack added 100% of water
Each subject will receive an experimental intervention of ice pack added to 500 mL of water. The intervention will last 20 minutes, and the order of application, expressed in % of water X ice, will be according to the randomization (realized in the first day). The pack will be wrapped in a band for improvement of the contac area. The subject will be asked to mark his pain level on the visual analogue scale (no pain score of 0 and pain as bad as it could be score of 10) every minute until the total time of the intervention.
Santa Catarina Federal University, Araranguá
Santa Catarina Federal University
OTHER
Alessandro Haupenthal
OTHER