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Evidence Based Practice Cold and Heat Therapy Michael G. Dolan, MA, ATC Professor/Athletic Trainer Director, Sports Medicine Research Laboratory Canisius College Buffalo, NY 2008 EATA Meeting at Valley Forge

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Evidence Based Practice

Cold and Heat Therapy

Michael G. Dolan, MA, ATCProfessor/Athletic TrainerDirector, Sports Medicine Research LaboratoryCanisius CollegeBuffalo, NY

2008 EATA Meeting at Valley Forge

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Show Me the Evidence!

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What is Evidence-Based Practice?

2008 EATA Meeting at Valley Forge

Best Research

Patient ValuesClinical Experience

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Cold, Heat, and Some Electricity

2008 EATA Meeting at Valley Forge

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Evidence-Based Practice

Large Scale Randomized Clinical Trials that examine our treatments and determine our clinical practice

Get Involved!

Lots of theories

Testimonials

Education & manufacturer driven

Uninjured human subjects

Animal Models

Some RCT’s

Where are we today? Where do we want to go?

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1. Put some ice on it

Top Ten Things an Athletic Trainer Says

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Does it?

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If so, which treatments are most effective?

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How can we optimize our treatments?

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The most common clinical practice in sports medicine

“Put some ice on it”Does ice reduce swelling after an ankle sprain?Does it hasten recovery?

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Systematic Review of Cryotherapy on Return to Play

83 relevant clinical trials79 were excluded because they did not include return to play as an outcome4 reviewed studies

Hubbard et al JAT 39(1) 88-94

2 had a positive RX effect

1 had a positive effect but attributed it to compression

1 showed no difference

All had PEDro Scores of 3 or 4 (1-10)

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PEDro Scale

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Physiotherapy Evidence Database (PEDro)

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Most Cold and Heat Studies

Goal of future Studies

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The use of ice in the treatment of acute soft-tissue injury: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials

There was marginal evidence that ice plus exercise is most effective, after ankle sprain and postsurgery There was little evidence to suggest that the addition of ice to compression had any significant effect, but this was restricted to treatment of hospital inpatients Few studies assessed the effectiveness of ice on closed soft-tissue injury, and there was no evidence of an optimal mode or duration of treatment.

Bleakley et al., Am J Sports Med 2004 32 (1), 251-61.

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Compared 20 minutes ice pack to intermittent (10 minutes 10 minutes off) ice packs

The intermittent protocol reduced pain on activity one week after injury

No other statistical difference in terms function, swelling and pain at rest

Statistical significance vs. clinical significance

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Compared Heat and cold on acute ankle sprains

Concluded that cold worked better than heat

No Controls

Did cold make it better or did heat make it worse?????

Hocutt et al. AJSM 1982:10(5)316-9

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Comparison of cold, heat and contrast therapy on ankle swelling

Measurement error was greater than treatment effect

No Control Group

Subacute Ankle Sprains

1 Treatment per day

All Three Interventions Increased Limb Volume!

Cold had the smallest increase and was deemed most effective

Cote et al. Phys Ther 1988, 68(7) 1072-6

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High Voltage Pulsed Current (HVPC)

Long touted by clinicians as an effective tool in managing pain and edema and thereby hastening recoveryNo evidence that it hastens recovery!!

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Michlovitz et al, JOSPT 1988;9,301-304

Ice and high voltage pulsed stimulation in treatment of acute lateral ankle sprains

30 subjects who sustained a grade l or ll Ankle Spain

ICE + HVPS

for 30 minutes

ICE for 30 minutes

ICE followed by HVPS

No treatment effect but a tendency toward decreased pain, edema, and an increase in ankle dorsiflexion

ATC treat within minutes of the injury

Most swelling has already occurred

One 30 Minute Treatment per day

Did not measure function

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Michlovitz et al, JOSPT 1988;9,301-304

Ice and high voltage pulsed stimulation in treatment of acute lateral ankle sprains

No treatment effect but a tendency toward decreased pain, edema, and an increase in ankle

dorsiflexion

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Does cryotherapy and e-stim have an added effect?

If not, which is more effective

Does either modality provide a “clinical effect”

Funded by a Grant from NYSATA

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Cryotherapy

CHVPC

Decreases MetabolicActivity

Decrease in Capillary Permeability

+ =Greater RX Effect?

Acute Trauma Management

What effect does initial treatment have on acute edema formation?

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Results

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Cryotherapy + HVPC had no added treatment effect

Comparison of Treatment

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Limb

Volumes

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Trauma 0 30 60 90

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“Staircase Effect”

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Continuous RX

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Supported by a NYSATA Grant

How can we improve the treatment effect?

Is more better?

JAT 2003, 38(4) 225-229

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Effects of Continuous Treatment on Edema Formation

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“Golden Minute” for Acute Management

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How can we optimize our treatments?

Pain &

Edema

Injury

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Exercise

Untreated

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Acute Trauma Management

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Is Amount of Time Treated Related to RX Effect?

Inflammation 100%

0 25 50 75 100

Minutes per day expressed as %

Cont. HVPC 85%

Cryotherapy 6%Compression 96%

Elevation 17%

HVPC 1%

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Effects of electrical stimulation on pain, edema and return to play following

ankle sprains in college and professional athletes

A Multi-Center Clinical Trial

Frank C. Mendel PhDMichael G. Dolan, MA, ATC

John Marzo, MDDale Fish, PhD, PT

Gregory Wilding, PhD

Funded by a grant from The National Football League

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50 Acute Lateral Ankle Sprains

Standard RICE Intervention

Treatment Control

Pain Swelling Functional testing RETURN TO PLAY

HVPC Inhibited recovery in Grade I lateral Ankle Sprains

HVPC had no effect on recovery of Grade II lateral Ankle Sprains

Effects of HVPC on acute lateral ankle sprains in collegiate and professional football players. Mendel et al. In Review.

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Effects of HVPC on Return to Play Following Ankle Sprains

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Clinical trials often give unexpected results

Time of Intervention

Does stim retard inhibit healing?

Prospective

Double Blind

Credible Placebo

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Application of Continuous HVPC in Athletes

Acute Trauma Management

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Extended Treatment using HVPC

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BEST PRACTICES: THE TAKE HOME MESSAGE

Limited evidence that RICE and E-Stim hasten recoveryApply RICE+ other interventions ASAPConsider Extended Treatment Times and reapply at frequent time intervals (more is sometimes BETTER)Supervised Rehab supplemented by home therapy

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Thermotherapy

Application of superficial and deep heat to improve treatment outcomes

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Cochrane Review of Superficial Heat and Cold

Acute and subacute low back painHeat wrap therapy reduced pain after 5 daysOne trial of 90 participants with acute low back pain found that a heated blanket significantly decreased pain One trial of 100 participants with a mix of acute and subacute low back pain examined the additional effects of adding exercise to heat wrap and found that it reduced pain after 7 days

French et al Spine 2006, 31 (9), pp. 998-1006

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Philadelphia Panel

Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines

Low Back Knee Shoulder Neck

US for calcific Tendon lesions

ExerciseTENS +

Exercise

ADL’s + Exercise

Thermotherapy is ineffective or no studies to evaluate

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Effects of heat wraps on skin and muscle temperatures

ThermaCare J& J Back Plaster ABC Warme-Pflaster

↑ temp at 2 cm depth with less sensation of heat

↑ temp at skin and greater sensation of heat

Trowbridge JOSPT, 2004,34(9) 549-558

You Decide

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Heat Wraps in the prevention and early treatment of low back DOMS

Mayer et al. Arch. of Phys. Med 2006 87(10) 1310-1317

2 RCT’s

Prevention Treatment

Heat Wrap Control Heat Wrap Cold

Pain Intensity ↓47% at 24 hours for heat wrap group

Pain relief was ↑ 138% at 24 hours for Heat Wraps

No differences in self-reported function or disability

Self Reported disability and function decreased 53% & 45% for

heat wrap group

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Nadler et al. Overnight use of continuous low-level heatwrap therapy for relief of low back pain. Arch of Phys. Med 2003:84(3) 335-342

Subjects with non-specific low back pain

Do heat wraps worn overnight affect pain, stiffness and ROM?

Heat Wrap worn overnight

Overnight use of heatwrap therapy provided effective pain reliefthroughout the next day, reduced muscle stiffness and disability,

and improved trunk flexibility. Positive effects were sustained more than 48 hours after treatments were completed.

Control

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Robertson and Baker: A review of therapeutic ultrasound: effectiveness studies. Phys. Ther. 2001 81(7)1339-1350

35 randomized clinical trials that examined US in soft tissue injuries

10 had acceptable methods and included treatment and control groups

2 reported positive outcomes (carpal tunnel syndrome &

calcific tendonitis of the shoulder)

little evidence that active therapeutic ultrasound is more effective than placebo in promoting soft tissue healing.

8 reported no treatment effect

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BEST PRACTICES: THE TAKE HOME MESSAGE

Limited evidence that thermotherapy hastens recoveryModerate evidence that continuous heat therapy decreases pain and improves function in non-specific back pathologyAre these results transferable to other conditions that athletictrainers manage?

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Thanks for the Invitation

2008 EATA Meeting at Valley Forge

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Evidence Based Practice

Cold and Heat Therapy

Michael G. Dolan, MA, ATCProfessor/Athletic TrainerDirector, Sports Medicine Research LaboratoryCanisius CollegeBuffalo, NY

2008 EATA Meeting at Valley Forge