ETHICS APPLICATION FORM - Ultrasound imaging of trained and untrained muscles
1. DESCRIBE THE BASIC PURPOSES OF THE PROPOSED RESEARCH.
If a person gets paralyzed and cannot move certain muscles, those muscles tend to change structure and get weaker. It would be useful to have a method of seeing what condition the muscle is in order to rehabilitate the person effectively as well as using that method to help clinical diagnosis of ailments known to cause muscle degradation.
The basic purpose of this study is to see how useful ultrasound imaging is in telling the difference between the trained and untrained muscle in a person. If ultrasound imaging performs well in this regard, further studies may be conducted to investigate the reliability of …show more content…
During which they are free to withdraw from the study and leave the lab at any point of the session without any reason.
Participants may feel a slight discomfort when the taking off the attached electrodes.
5. STATE WHAT IN YOUR OPINION ARE THE ETHICAL ISSUES INVOLVED IN THE
PROPOSAL.
The main ethical issues in the proposal are the use of data gathered in the experiment, and the risks involved in the experiment.
No third party will be present throughout the study and the data collected for publishing purposes in the research will not lead to participant identification. Furthermore, the whole data gathered will also be kept in a password-protected environment online & written consent etc. will be kept in a secured cabinet when not in use by research members specifically for the ultrasound experiment. Therefore confidentiality will be kept.
The risks associated to this study such as muscle fatigue/pain and adverse reaction to the gels used have been addressed with the warm ups and safety tests included in the procedure.
6. SPECIFY THE NATURE OF THE PARTICIPANTS. INDICATE IF THE RESEARCH
INVOLVES CHILDREN OR THOSE WITH MENTAL DISABILITIES OR HANDICAP. IF SO,
EXPLAIN THE STEPS TAKEN TO OBTAIN PERMISSION FROM L.E.A.s,
1. DESCRIBE THE BASIC PURPOSES OF THE PROPOSED RESEARCH.
If a person gets paralyzed and cannot move certain muscles, those muscles tend to change structure and get weaker. It would be useful to have a method of seeing what condition the muscle is in order to rehabilitate the person effectively as well as using that method to help clinical diagnosis of ailments known to cause muscle degradation.
The basic purpose of this study is to see how useful ultrasound imaging is in telling the difference between the trained and untrained muscle in a person. If ultrasound imaging performs well in this regard, further studies may be conducted to investigate the reliability of …show more content…
During which they are free to withdraw from the study and leave the lab at any point of the session without any reason.
Participants may feel a slight discomfort when the taking off the attached electrodes.
5. STATE WHAT IN YOUR OPINION ARE THE ETHICAL ISSUES INVOLVED IN THE
PROPOSAL.
The main ethical issues in the proposal are the use of data gathered in the experiment, and the risks involved in the experiment.
No third party will be present throughout the study and the data collected for publishing purposes in the research will not lead to participant identification. Furthermore, the whole data gathered will also be kept in a password-protected environment online & written consent etc. will be kept in a secured cabinet when not in use by research members specifically for the ultrasound experiment. Therefore confidentiality will be kept.
The risks associated to this study such as muscle fatigue/pain and adverse reaction to the gels used have been addressed with the warm ups and safety tests included in the procedure.
6. SPECIFY THE NATURE OF THE PARTICIPANTS. INDICATE IF THE RESEARCH
INVOLVES CHILDREN OR THOSE WITH MENTAL DISABILITIES OR HANDICAP. IF SO,
EXPLAIN THE STEPS TAKEN TO OBTAIN PERMISSION FROM L.E.A.s,