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Paper Tape Prevents Foot Blisters: A Randomized Prevention Trial Assessing Paper Tape in Endurance Distances II (Pre-TAPED II).
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Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine . Sep2016, Vol. 26 Issue 5, p362-368. 7p. - Publication Year :
- 2016
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Abstract
- Objective: To determine whether paper tape prevents foot blisters in multistage ultramarathon runners. Design: Multisite prospective randomized trial. Setting: The 2014 250-km (155-mile) 6-stage RacingThePlanet ultramarathons in Jordan, Gobi, Madagascar, and Atacama Deserts. Participants: One hundred twenty-eight participants were enrolled: 19 (15%) from the Jordan, 35 (27%) from Gobi, 21 (16%) from Madagascar, and 53 (41%) from the Atacama Desert. The mean age was 39.3 years (22-63) and body mass index was 24.2 kg/m² (17.4-35.1), with 31 (22.5%) females. Interventions: Paper tape was applied to a randomly selected foot before the race, either to participants' blister-prone areas or randomly selected location if there was no blister history, with untaped areas of the same foot used as the control. Main Outcome Measures: Development of a blister anywhere on the study foot. Results: One hundred six (83%) participants developed 117 blisters, with treatment success in 98 (77%) runners. Paper tape reduced blisters by 40% (P< 0.01, 95% confidence interval, 28-52) with a number needed to treat of 1.31. Most of the study participants had 1 blister (78%), with most common locations on the toes (n = 58, 50%) and heel (n = 27, 23%), with 94 (80%) blisters occurring by the end of stage 2. Treatment success was associated with earlier stages [odds ratio (OR), 74.9, P < 0.01] and time spent running (OR, 0.66, P = 0.01). Conclusion: Paper tape was found to prevent both the incidence and frequency of foot blisters in runners. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *BLISTERS
*RUNNING injuries
*ADHESIVE tape
*ANALYSIS of variance
*CHI-squared test
*CLINICAL trials
*CONFIDENCE intervals
*FOOT
*MEDICAL cooperation
*PROBABILITY theory
*RESEARCH
*RESEARCH funding
*STATISTICAL hypothesis testing
*T-test (Statistics)
*LOGISTIC regression analysis
*SAMPLE size (Statistics)
*STATISTICAL power analysis
*MULTIPLE regression analysis
*RANDOMIZED controlled trials
*LONG-distance running
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*ODDS ratio
*PREVENTION
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1050642X
- Volume :
- 26
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 117831902
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1097/JSM.0000000000000319