Research Report

Effect of Deep Friction Massage with Taping Technique on Strength, Pain, Function and Wrist Extensor Muscle Activity in Patient with Tennis Elbow

Jeong-Hoon Lee1, Jae-Seop Oh2, Moon-Hwan Kim3,*
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1Department of Rehabilitation Science, The Graduate School, Inje University, Gimhae, South Korea
2Department of Physical Therapy, College of Biomedical Science and Engineering, Inje University, Gimhae, South Korea
3Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Wonju Severance Christian Hospital, Wonju, South Korea
*agafimu@hanmail.net, Moon-Hwan Kim, Department of Rehabilitation Medicine, Wonju Severance Christian Hospital, Wonju, South Korea

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Received: Oct 08, 2020 ; Revised: Oct 18, 2020 ; Revised: Nov 24, 2020 ; Accepted: Nov 26, 2020

Published Online: Dec 31, 2020

ABSTRACT

Background

Lateral epicondylitis, generally referred to as tennis elbow, is a common condition of the forearm. Treatment typically includes specialized manual therapy, including deep friction massage (DFM), taping, and Mill’s manipulation.

Purpose

The aim of this study was to evaluate changes in pain, function, strength, and muscle activity following taping with DFM.

Study design

Randomized controlled trial

Methods

We recruited 30 patients with tennis elbow and equally divided into two groups using randomization (Taping group versus taping and DFM group). Pre- and post-intervention measures included a visual analog scale (VAS) pain scores, the Patient-rated Tennis Elbow Evaluation (PRTEE) questionnaire, pain-free grip strength (PFGS), wrist extensor strength (WES), and wrist extensor electromyography (EMG). DFM and diamond taping were applied as the study intervention. The differences between pre- and post-intervention outcome measures were analyzed using two-way repeated-measures analysis of variance.

Results

A significant time-by-group interaction was observed for the VAS, PRTEE scores, PFGS, WES, and EMG. A post hoc paired t-test showed that pain, function, and strength improved significantly post-intervention in the group treated with taping and DFM. The VAS and PRTEE scores significantly decreased, and PFGS, WES, and EMG significantly increased in both groups post-intervention.

Conclusions

Our findings demonstrated that taping with DFM can be an effective strategy for decreasing pain, improving function, and increasing strength and muscle activation in patients with lateral epicondylitis.

Keywords: Deep friction massage; Lateral epicondylitis; Strength; Taping; Tennis elbow

Key Points

Question Is it more effective to apply taping technique and manual therapy together to improve muscle strength, pain, function and wrist extensor muscle activity in tennis elbow patients than to apply taping technique alone to tennis elbow patients?

Findings In this randomized trial of 30 young adults, manual therapy and taping technique to reduce pain and inflammation and improve muscle activity were included in the intervention and were more manual than those applying the taping technique intervention. Pain, function, muscle strength, and muscle activity were significantly improved in response to the combined intervention of therapy and taping technique.

Meaning Manual therapy and taping technique interventions that reduce pain and inflammation and improve muscle activity can provide clinical benefits to improve pain, function, strength and activity in tennis elbow patients.


INTRODUCTION

Tennis elbow is also called lateral epicondylitis, which is a syndrome in which joint ridges start nodules above the elbow joint (medial and lateral epicondyle start nodules),1,2,3 wrist bending or flexion causes pain or local tenderness at the point where muscles are started.3,4,5 It is one of the most common causes of joint pain. Excessive exercise using arms such as tennis, people who use a lot of work arms, excessively quick simple movements, and repetitive knitting contraction shortens the ulnar extensor muscle at the start point of lateral epicondyle, causing inflammation occurs.6-10 Treatment methods include corticosteroid injections, which have a short-term effect, and time-consuming,11,12 but non-invasive physical and specific frequency therapies, including deep friction massage (DFM), taping, Mill’s manipulation, and wrist movement, etc. These taping and DFM are therapeutically accessible and are widely used in clinical practice.13-16

DFM is known to affect muscle tissue in the vertical direction of fibers,17 mechanically cause hyperemia, rearrange collagen in normal soft tissue, and reduce pain through “barrier regulation theory”, and reduce inflammation, It has been reported that it destroys or prevents abnormal fiber adhesions, reduces stress, remodels collagen, and improves the quality of wound tissue.18,19 In a previous study, it was reported that when DFM was applied to tennis elbow patients, it improved the pain reduction function and increased the pain-free grip strength, hand grip strength, and hand grip endurance.20 However, no studies have examined the increase in wrist extensor muscle strength when DFM is applied. And there were studies applying DFM where the extension angle and function of the wrist were not significantly improved or increased with other treatments.

Taping regulates the passive length of muscles, increasing muscle strength, improving muscle function and suppressing α-motorneurone, reducing pain, fixing body parts and fixing imbalances rather than imbalanced parts.11,21-23 Widely used in motor rehabilitation programs to facilitate therapy with therapeutic methods that display tension higher to improve muscle strength and provide proprioceptive feedback to learn motor memory and restore functional movement patterns used.23 The elbow taping technique was used to treat tennis elbows, and there was a study that reduced pain, improved function, and increased pain-free grip strength by 24%, increasing wrist extensor muscle strength by 11.6N.22 However, no studies evaluated the patient’s hand grip endurance after applying taping to tennis elbow patients. In addition, previous study in which taping, exercise, and treatment were applied to people with Patellofemoral pain to measure muscle activity, muscle activity was not significantly increased compared to other exercise and treatment.17 There was no significant increase over other exercises and treatments. One treatment intervention can also increase pain, function, and muscle strength in tennis elbow patients, but not sure about wrist extensor muscle strength, function, muscle activity and hand grip endurance.

The results of these inconsistent studies are those that were shown to apply only one treatment, and when taping or DFM applied the other treatments together, applied only one treatment. There were studies that showed a better effect than the ones. The results of such studies are considered to be better when the two treatments are applied together.

Therefore, the purpose of our study was to investigate the effectiveness of taping and DFM on the pain, function, strength and EMG when comparing the effects of taping for patients with tennis elbow. Our hypothesis was that compared to taping alone, taping and DFM together were more effective in improvements of pain, function, muscle strength, muscle activity in patients with tennis elbow.

METHODS

Subjects

Thirty tennis elbow patients (10 males, 20 females, age 36.97±14.91 years, height 166.50±7.89 cm, weight 59.27± 11.88 kg) were recruited in the study. Patients were recruited to the physiotherapy unit through public advertisements and referrals to the exercise center. All subjects were diagnosed with tennis lateral epicondylitis by a physician prior to treatment and all treatments were applied to the subject’s predominant hand. The patient had symptoms from 6 months to 5 years ago. All subjects complained of tenderness in the Extensor carpi radialis brevis tendon. The inclusion criteria were patients who were diagnosed with a tennis elbow by a specialist and felt pain when performing a cozen test or maudsley test.24 Bleeding, skin disease, external perchloric surgery on the elbow, carpal tunnel syndrome, cervical spinal nerve injury, upper limb fractures, tape allergy, and treatment with steroid injections within the last 6 months, physiotherapeutic treatment of the upper extremity with neurological abnormalities or orthopedic disorders of the upper extremity and who recently received other treatments were excluded.24 The 30 subjects were randomly divided into 15 taping groups and 15 taping and DFM groups. This study was conducted after passing the deliberation of the Institutional Bioethics Committee of Inje University (INJE2016-11-016-002).

Experimental equipment and tools Visual analogue scale (VAS)

Patient pain was measured using VAS. The VAS has indicated the pain felt by the patient on a table made up of 10 cm lines. When there is almost no pain, 0 is displayed, and pain that cannot be tolerated is displayed as 10. VAS has been validated and validated through previous studies to measure the degree of pain commonly felt on the elbow.25

Patient-rated tennis elbow evaluation (PRTEE)

Patient function was measured using the Patient-rated Tennis Elbow Evaluation (PRTEE). PRTEE consists of 15 items, 5 items of pain, 10 items of elbow function, 0-50 points for pain area, 0 to 100 points for elbow function area, and the total score of the 0-100 points. function area score was divided into 2 and the high score was set to 50 so that the total score of the pain evaluation area and the functional evaluation item could be 100 points. If you do not respond to the evaluation items, it is assumed that you have not executed at all.26

Pain-free grip strength

Pain-free grip strength (PFGS) was measured using a Jamar hydraulic hand dynamometer (PC 5030JI, Preston Corporation, USA). The patient was comfortably seated in a chair, the elbow was bent 90 degrees, the wrist was measured in a neutral position, the other hand was comfortably placed, and the subject’s upper arm was attached to the torso. I took a break after grasping the dynamometer so strongly that I did not feel pain for 5 seconds. The PFGS was measured three times with a patient’s uncomfortable grip, and the average of the measurements was used for data analysis. In previous studies, the reliability of the hand dynamometer was 0.973.21

Wrist extension strength

A patient’s wrist extension strength (WES) was measured using a Hand-held dynamometer (POWER TRACK II, JTech Medical, Salt I lake City UT). Measuring with the patient sitting directly on the chair, the elbow of the hand was bent 90 degrees and placed comfortably on the table. Place the other hand comfortably on your lap, put your wrist out of the corner of the table, and put your wrist in a neutral position. The fingers are bent so as to apply force to the metacarpophalangeal joint of the third finger. The value is measured so that the patient does not feel uncomfortable. It measured 3 times and analyzed the average value. In previous studies, the Hand-held dynamometer showed a reliability of 0.80.22

Electromyography

Wrist extensor muscle activity of patients was measured using surface EMG (2EM, 4D-MT, Relive, Gimhae, Korea. Notch filter 60Hz, bandpass 20-450Hz, sampling, 1000Hz). Before applying the electrodes, they were cleaned with alcohol cotton and shaved to reduce skin resistance, then rubbed with soft sandpaper. The electrodes were attached to the extensor digitorum, extensor carpi radialis brevis, and flexor carpi radialis at intervals of 2 cm. For Surface EMG measurements, the patient was immediately seated in a chair with feet in contact with the floor, the shoulders collected, and placed in a neutral rotational position. The patient flex elbow 90 degrees and placed lower arm in a neutral position. The unmeasured arm was placed comfortably on the knee. The wrist should be extension between 0 and 30 degrees, the resistance should be given to give the maximum force, the EMG should be measured for 5 seconds, and the value for the middle 3 seconds should be the value of maximum voluntary isomeric contraction (MVIC). Used as a value. After measuring three times, the average value was used as a baseline, and the wrist was moved to the temple for 5 seconds without discomfort, and the middle 3 seconds was generalized.24

Procedure

Subjects in the two groups measured all pre-intervention VAS and PRTEE, followed by wrist extensor electromyography, pain-free grip strength and wrist extension strength.

1) Taping group

The group to which taping was applied taping to the wrist extensor site of the subject’s dominant hand. A non-stretching 3.8 cm thick tape was cut into 8-10 cm and applied in the shape of a diamond in the direction close to the far side of the four skins. At this time, it was attached so that the texture of the skin looked like orange peel. After attaching the tape, VAS, PRTEE, wrist extensor EMG, pain-free grip strength and wrist extension strength were measured.

2) Taping and DFM group

For groups with taping and DFM applied together, it is difficult to apply taping first and then DFM, so after applying DFM and Mill’s manipulation for the first 15 minutes, apply taping as with taping groups. After tape application, VAS, PRTEE, wrist extensor EMG, pain-free grip strength, wrist extension strength were measured.

Statistical analysis

The average and standard deviation of VAS, PRTEE, wrist extensor EMG, pain-free grip strength, wrist extension strength are analyzed using SPSS program (ver. 22.0 for Windows; SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA), and Two-way repeated-measures analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to compare the VAS, PRTEE, wrist extensor EMG, pain-free grip strength, wrist extension strength within and between groups. The p value was set to 0.05 or less.

RESULTS

The data in this study show positive changes in VAS, PRTEE, wrist extensor EMG, Pain-free grip strength, and wrist extension strength in Tennis elbow patients with DFM and taping compared pre and post intervention. VAS appeared in the taping and DFM groups at 5.3±1.25 and 1.4±0.63 with p<0.001, and in the taping group as 5.2±0.96 and 1.67±0.50 with p value of 0.010. There was no significant difference between the groups. PRTEE was 33.43±8.03 in the taping and DFM group, 12.3±4.17 and p value was 0.001, and PRTEE was 31.63±7.50 and 14.83±5.60 was 0.001 in p value. The p value was 0.012 and the taping and DFM groups were more significant than the taping group. Pain-free grip strength was 26.16±10.70 at 30.24±10.95 at p <0.001 for taping and DFM group, and 21.87±7.47 at 24.50±7.70 at p<0.001 for taping group. The difference between groups was p<0.001, and the taping and DFM groups were more significant than the taping group. The wrist extension strength was 83.94±24.97, 101.88±27.59 and p<0.001 at taping and DFM group, and 93.33±26.80 and p<0.001 at 85.19±25.91 in taping group. The difference between groups was p<0.001, and the taping and DFM groups were more significant than the taping group. In the wrist extensor EMG, the taping with DFM group was 61.25±6.98, the p value was 0.010 at 75.25±19.03, and the taping group was 71.47±8.19, the p value was 76.77±7.57, and the p value was 0.017. It was observed that there was no significant difference between the groups. (Tables 1, 2).

Table 1. Outcome measure data at baseline for both groups
Variable Taping group (N=15) Taping+DFM group (N=15) t p value
VASa 5.30±1.25c 5.20±0.96 .246 .269
PRTEEb 33.43±8.04 31.63±7.49 .635 .997
Pain-free grip strength (N) 26.16±10.70 21.87±7.46 1.273 .096
Wrist extension strength (N) 83.94±24.97b 85.19±25.91 –.135 .708
Wrist Extensor (%MVICd) 61.25±6.98 71.47±8.19 –3.678 .754

a visual analogue scale;

b patient-rated tennis elbow evaluation;

c means±standard deviation;

d maximum voluntary isomeric contraction.

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Table 2. Changes in outcome measure variables between pre- and post-intervention
Time Group Time×Group
F p F p F p
VASa 319.361 <.001* .114 .004* .777 .386
PRTEEb 381.713 <.001* .029 .867 4.981 .034*
Pain-free grip strength (N) 545.568 <.001* 25.593 <.001* 2.166 .072
Wrist extension strength (N) 158.909 <.001* .146 .706 22.454 <.001*
Wrist Extensor (%MVICd) 14.283 .001* 2.763 .108 2.905 .099

a visual analogue scale;

b patient-rated tennis elbow evaluation;

c means±standard deviation;

d maximum voluntary isomeric contraction;

* p<.05.

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DISCUSSION

In this study, when taping and DFM were applied to tennis elbow patients, taping group and taping and DFM were applied by measuring VAS, PRTEE, pain-free grip strength, wrist extension strength, and wrist extensor EMG of the patients. We compared the differences between groups pre and post intervention and between groups.

In the study, the effect on pain was significantly lower in pre-intermediation and post-intervention VAS in both the taped group and both taped and DFM groups. However, the interaction between pre-intervention and post-intervention did not show a significant value in the group where VAS did not show a significant difference between the two groups. In a previous study, Shamsoddini and Hollisaz27 applied taping to patients with tennis elbow to significantly reduce post-intervention pain compared to pre-intervention, and Vicenzino et al.21 found that the diamond taping technique used other taping techniques. When applied, the post-intervention pressure pain threshold for post-intervention pain was significantly higher than pre-intervention, and was significantly higher 30 minutes after intervention. It was found that the results of this study were similar to the results of the previous study. It was found that applying taping to tennis elbow patients was a psychophysiological model. It is believed that it has been effective in reducing pain in tennis elbow patients by substantiating research that alters pain perception. Also, Nagrale et al.20 have shown results of reducing pain when applying DFM and steroid injections to tennis elbow patients respectively, and Verhaar et al.12 applied Mill’s manipulation with DFM to play tennis. It significantly reduced the pain in elbow patients. Also, Baltaci et al.28 showed that DFM and Mill’s manipulation were applied, and the pain was significantly reduced as compared with the group to which general physical therapy was applied. Also, Olaussen et al.15 significantly reduced pain in a group of tennis elbow patients who received DFM, Mill’s manipulation, and corticosteroid injection. The results of previous studies can support the results of this study that DFM increases pain thresholds associated with pain and skin conductance and blood flow rate to increase sympathetic nervous system response and reduce pain. It is believed that it can be used in an effective way to treat patients. Moreover, the results based on the application of a single treatment technique can be applied together with other treatments, but the study results that there is no other difference, this is a way to reduce pain, applying many methods. Even suggests the importance of using more effective treatment methods for patients.

Table 3. Results of within-group comparisons
Variable Pre-intervention Post-intervention p value
VASa
Taping group 5.2±0.96c 1.67±0.50 <.001*
Taping+DFM group 5.3±1.25 1.4±0.63 <.001*
PRTEEb
Taping group 31.63±7.50 14.83±5.60 <.001*
Taping+DFM group 33.43±8.03 12.30±4.17 <.001*
Pain-free grip strength (N)
Taping group 21.87±7.47 24.50±7.70 <.001*
Taping+DFM group 26.16±10.70 30.24±10.95 <.001*
Wrist extension strength (N)
Taping group 85.19±25.91 93.33±26.80 <.001*
Taping+DFM group 83.94±24.97 101.88±27.59 <.001*
Wrist extensor (%MVICd)
Taping group 71.47±8.19 76.77±7.57 .010*
Taping+DFM group 61.25±6.98 75.25±19.03 .017*

a visual analogue scale;

b patient-rated tennis elbow evaluation;

c means±standard deviation;

d maximum voluntary isomeric contraction;

* p<.05.

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In this study showed that the effect of mediation method for function of tennis elbow patients showed significantly improved results both pre and post intervention, and the effect of improved function between groups showed significant difference. In a previous study, Halim-Kertanegara et al.29 showed a significant increase in functional score and increased functional movement when taping was applied to patients with ankle instability. Lee et al.30 conducted a study that applied positive taping to stroke patients and found a positive effect on the motion of reaching for the paralyzed person. And Dimitrios and Ioannis31 applied DFM to improve the function of tennis elbow patients. Tools for assessing functional areas together measure pain and functional scores, suggesting that functional movements are often associated with pain. In this study, the result of applying taping and DFM to improve function is that two intervention methods reduce all pain and improve the functional movement resulting from the decrease in pain when it causes movement. Less pain is fed as improved function. Also, taping and DFM applied together had improved function over single-treatment groups, but no effective way to improve pain was determined. Applying multiple mediations is considered to be a synergistic effect of taping and DFM.

In this study, the muscle strength of tennis elbow patients showed significantly increased results pre and post intervention, both in the taped group and in the taped and DFM combined group, and the differences between the groups also showed significant results. In a previous study, Shamsoddini and Hollisaz25 applied taping to tennis elbow patients and found that their pain-free grip strength was significantly increased and their wrist extension strength increased. Also, Vicenzino et al.21 applied taping to increase the pain-free grip strength. Applying taping, the results of increased muscle strength and the results of previous studies show that the body segment is anchored to create more tension and to increase muscle strength than the unfixed site. In addition, in a previous study, Nagrale et al.20 found that Pain-free grip strength was significantly increased by applying DFM to tennis elbow patients, and Molouki et al.32 applied manual therapy to Pain-free grip strength. There was a study that increased free grip strength and Hand grip endurance. It is considered that the reason why DFM increased the muscle strength was that it directly acts on the muscle, and the normal soft tissue fibrous muscle arrangement by this causes the muscle strength to increase.

Table 4. Results of between-group comparison in the change value (N=30)
Variable Taping+DFM group (n1=15) Taping group (n2=15) p value
VASa 1.40±0.63c 1.67±0.49 .207
PRTEEb 12.30±4.17 14.83±5.55 .169
Pain-free grip strength (N) 30.24±10.95 24.50±7.70 .107
Wrist extension strength (N) 101.88±27.59 93.33±26.80 .397
Wrist Extensor (%MVICd) 75.25±19.03 76.77±9.57 .785

a visual analogue scale;

b patient-rated tennis elbow evaluation;

c means±standard deviation;

d maximum voluntary isomeric contraction;

* p<.05.

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Pain-free grip strength and wrist extension strength between groups in which DFM and taping were applied together and taping alone were significantly increased in this study before taping was applied in the group in which taping and DFM were applied together. After applying DFM and Mill’s manipulation for 15 minutes, Diamond taping was applied, and the electromyogram after intervention increased from the results of this study. Muscle strength and EMG are groups in which DFM and taping are applied together while the effect of increased EMG in intervention of DFM known to be related is maintained by applying taping.32 It is considered that the strength and wrist extension strength increased significantly compared to the group where only taping was applied.21,23,25 Therefore, it is considered that applying DFM and then taping to tennis elbow patients is an effective way to increase the muscle strength of the patients.

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In our study, wrist extensor EMG was significantly increased pre and post intervention, both in the taped group and in the taped and DFM co-administered group. However, there was no significant difference between the groups. In a previous study, Lee et al.33 found significant results comparing the muscle activity of Abductor hallucis with short foot exercise by applying taping to patients with patellofemoral pain syndrome. There was a study in which DFM was not applied to muscles and muscle activity was significantly increased. This means that taping and DFM had the effect of increasing the muscle activity of each muscle. Taping increases blood volume in the soft tissue under the skin to increase muscle activity, and DFM can directly sti-mulate muscles to increase muscle activity. The insignificant effect of taping and DFM between groups is due to the fact that the distance between skin and muscle increases after taping because the position to measure muscle activity and the position to attach taping are the same. It is probable that there was interference in the electrogram measurement. Therefore, promoting and increasing the muscle activity of tennis elbow patients is considered to be effective for both the therapeutic method of applying taping and the therapeutic method of applying taping and DFM together, and both are recommended in the therapeutic method of patients. It is thought that it can be done.

The limitation of this study is that only tennis elbow patients were measured. We were unable to measure the elbow strength and muscle activity that could be commonly displayed because we measured the pain and function, muscle strength, and muscle activity that could be displayed from tennis patients. In a future study, when measuring and comparing the muscle strength and muscle activity of subjects without tennis elbow and tennis elbow patients, we compared the difference in mediation effect between tennis elbow patients and target companies without symptoms, Research on intervention effects and preventive measures may be conducted.

Another limitation was not excluded posture and placement, as well as upper limb history and injury of tennis elbow patients. Muscle strength of the wrist and range of motion of the elbow and shoulder showed other grip strength depending on the position and angle of the head and elbow and shoulder, but there was a previous study.24 Therefore, this is an interesting study to compare the difference in muscle strength and electromyography of tennis elbow patients with different head and neck postures and shoulder positions.

CONCLUSIONS

In our study, we investigated how taping and DFM techniques affect pain, function, strength and activity in tennis elbow patients. The current findings showed a significant decrease in elbow pain and increased muscle activity after mediated both by taping plus DFM and taping alone group. After intervention, both function and strength were significantly increased among the groups. Taping and DFM may be used in effective treatment methods to treat tennis elbow patients, respectively, but when taping and DFM are applied together, they are used in a way to improve tennis elbow patient function and strength more effectively.

Conflict of Interest Disclosures

None.

Funding/Support

None.

Acknowledgment

None.

Ethic Approval

This study was conducted after passing the deliberation of the Institutional Bioethics Committee of Inje University (INJE2016-11-016-002).

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