## Protocol Section
### Identification Module
**NCT ID:** NCT06430281

**Brief Title:** Manual Therapy Force Perception Scale

**Official Title:** Development and Pre-testing of a Manual Therapy Force Perception Scale

#### Organization Study ID Info
**ID:** UQTR_IP_EchelleTM_2024
#### Organization
**Class:** OTHER
**Full Name:** Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières
### Status Module
#### Completion Date
**Date:** 2024-07-04

**Type:** ESTIMATED

#### Expanded Access Info
#### Last Update Post Date
**Date:** 2024-05-29

**Type:** ACTUAL

**Last Update Submit Date:** 2024-05-24

**Overall Status:** RECRUITING

#### Primary Completion Date
**Date:** 2024-06-04

**Type:** ESTIMATED

#### Start Date
**Date:** 2024-02-01

**Type:** ACTUAL

**Status Verified Date:** 2024-05

#### Study First Post Date
**Date:** 2024-05-28
**Type:** ACTUAL
**Study First Submit Date:** 2024-05-21
**Study First Submit QC Date:** 2024-05-24
### Sponsor Collaborators Module

#### Lead Sponsor

**Class:** OTHER

**Name:** Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

#### Responsible Party

**Investigator Affiliation:** Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

**Investigator Full Name:** Isabelle Pagé

**Investigator Title:** Professor

**Type:** PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

### Oversight Module

**Is FDA Regulated Device:** False

**Is FDA Regulated Drug:** False

**Oversight Has DMC:** False

### Description Module

**Brief Summary:** The objective of this observational study is to pilot a scale designed to assist clinicians in evaluating the force they perceive during manual therapy.

The main question it aims to answer is:

- Are clinicians able to evaluate the force they use when delivering manual therapies to their patients using a scale?

For the pilot test, licensed chiropractors administer manual therapies on a manikin.

**Detailed Description:** The aim of this observational study is to pilot test an ordinal scale (the Manual Therapy Force Perception \[MTFP\] scale) intended to enable clinicians to assign ordinal rankings to their patients based on their perception of the force they applied during manual therapy . This involved evaluating the agreement between the force applied by clinicians during spinal manipulations and mobilizations delivered on a manikin and their subjective perception of force, as determined using the MTFP scale. Additionally, the pilot study aimed to seek feedback on the MTFP scale from clinicians who are its potential users.

### Conditions Module

**Conditions:**

- Manual Therapy

**Keywords:**

- Chiropractic

- Spinal mobilization

- Spinal manipulation

- force sensor

### Design Module

#### Design Info

**Observational Model:** COHORT

**Time Perspective:** CROSS_SECTIONAL

#### Enrollment Info

**Count:** 12

**Type:** ESTIMATED

**Study Type:** OBSERVATIONAL

### Arms Interventions Module

#### Arm Group 1

**Description:** Chiropractors will administer manual therapies on a manikin utilizing three distinct levels of force (typical force, low force, high force), determined by the trial label on the scale. A sensor will gauge the magnitude of force applied.

**Intervention Names:**

- Other: Manual therapy

**Label:** Participants

### Interventions

#### Intervention 1

**Arm Group Labels:**

- Participants

**Description:** A manual force will be applied to a manikin positioned on a chiropractic treatment table. The force exerted during the manual therapy must align with the trial label indicated on the Manual Therapy Force Perception \[MTFP\] scale.

**Name:** Manual therapy

**Type:** OTHER

### Outcomes Module

#### Primary Outcomes

**Description:** The therapy will be delivered on a force sensor (Loadpad(R)) which will measured the force applied. The peak force reached during the therapy will be extracted.

**Measure:** Peak force measured by a force sensor during the manual therapy

**Time Frame:** During the manual therapy

### Eligibility Module

**Eligibility Criteria:** Inclusion Criteria:

* Licensed chiropractors with a private practice within the province of Quebec, Canada.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Having a condition that prevents the execution of approximately 50 manual therapies over a 1-hour period.

**Healthy Volunteers:** True

**Sampling Method:** NON_PROBABILITY_SAMPLE

**Sex:** ALL

**Standard Ages:**

- CHILD

- ADULT

- OLDER_ADULT

**Study Population:** Licensed chiropractors

### Contacts Locations Module

#### Central Contacts

**Contact 1:**

**Email:** isabelle.page1@uqtr.ca

**Name:** Isabelle Pagé, DC, PhD

**Phone:** 819-376-5011

**Phone Ext:** 3885

**Role:** CONTACT

#### Locations

**Location 1:**

**City:** Trois-Rivières

**Contacts:**

***Contact 1:***

- **Email:** isabelle.page1@uqtr.ca

- **Name:** Isabelle Pagé, DC, PhD

- **Phone:** 819-376-5011

- **Phone Ext:** 3885

- **Role:** CONTACT

***Contact 2:***

- **Name:** Isabelle Pagé, DC, PhD

- **Role:** PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

**Country:** Canada

**Facility:** Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

**State:** Quebec

**Status:** RECRUITING

**Zip:** G8Z 4M3

#### Overall Officials

**Official 1:**

**Affiliation:** Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières

**Name:** Isabelle Pagé, DC, PhD

**Role:** PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

### IPD Sharing Statement Module

**IPD Sharing:** NO

## Derived Section

### Misc Info Module

- Version Holder: 2024-05-31
