Chen, Pei-Chun
Taipei Medicine University, Taiwan
Title: Validity and Reliability of a Novel Soft Tissue Tension Detector.
Biography
Biography: Chen, Pei-Chun
Abstract
In Taiwan, many different shapes of buffalo horn are used in the traditional massage to release the deep soft tissue pain. However, the treatment protocol for each patient is difficult to identify because pain measurement is still subjective and difficult to be quantitative. Therefore, the study is to develop a novel soft tissue tension detector and validate the validity and reliability.
This detector is composed of two parts; one part is the buffalo horn, the massage tool, with the load cell sensor, and the other part is the monitor, which provides the static maximum peak force and dynamic reaction force data during massage. Additionally, the buffalo horn has two ends; one is the 8mm diameters sphere end. As far as the other end, there are five 2mm sphere forming a quincuncial. The validity was examined by comparing the forces from the detector with obtained by the electronic scale from 100g to 9 kg. The test-retest reliability was using identical procedures on two separate. Pearson correlation was used to validate and intraclass correlation coefficient (ICC) were calculated to determine the test-retest reliability.
Excellent correlation was observed between the detector and the electronic scale for the 90 different forces for the 8mm (r=.998) and 2mm*5 (r=.975). Furthermore, excellent ICC values was also demonstrated for the 8mm (r=.99) and 2mm*5 (r=.89) (p<0.01).
The result represents the novel detector for measuring force is valid and reliable. The detector would provide the data instantly, and record the soft tissue tension (reaction force) during traditional massage.