Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy in Patients With Long-lasting Musculoskeletal Pain.

NCT ID: NCT02482792

Last Updated: 2017-10-27

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

128 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2013-08-31

Study Completion Date

2017-10-26

Brief Summary

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The aim is to examine the effect of Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy (NPMP) in employees with long-lasting musculoskeletal pain compared to employees receiving Cognitive Patient Education in combination with active individual physiotherapy (COPE-PT) on pain, function, quality of life and sick-leave

Detailed Description

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The NPMP is based on the assumption that patients with long-lasting problems, physical and/or psychological, may react with general aberrations related to posture, respiration, and movements, as well as with muscular tension and skin changes.

Employees With Long lasting musculoskeletal pain problems, working in the Municipality of Bergen, will be invited to participate in an Randomized Clinical Trial (RCT), and randomized to either receive Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy (NPMP) or a series of Cognitive Patient Education in combination with active individual physiotherapy (COPE-PT). The aim is to examine the effect of NPMP compared to those receiving COPE-PT on pain, function, quality of life and sick-leave.

Conditions

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Physical Disability

Keywords

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Musculoskeletal disorders Psychosomatic Pain

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy

NPMP is a body-mind awareness approach, often given in a combination of massage, exercises and conversations. The NPMP is individualized, with duration of 45-60 minutes in each session. As the NPMP is a longitudinal and normally slow process to obtain change, treatment can last up till one year, in the beginning once a week, and after some time once a month.

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy

Intervention Type OTHER

The recruited patients will after randomization receive either Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy (NPMP) or COPE combined with active individual physiotherapy. In NPMP the treatment is individualized, targeting body-mind awareness through exercise, massage and therapeutic conversation

Cognitive Patient Education and PT

The comparison group will receive a combination of education about how to manage pain (COPE) followed by active individual physiotherapy.They will receive one session weekly with COPE, given by a physiotherapist, maximum 4 times, followed by active individual Physiotherapy (PT).

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Cognitive Patient Education and PT

Intervention Type OTHER

The comparison group will receive a combination of education about how to manage pain (COPE) followed by active individual physiotherapy.

Interventions

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Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy

The recruited patients will after randomization receive either Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy (NPMP) or COPE combined with active individual physiotherapy. In NPMP the treatment is individualized, targeting body-mind awareness through exercise, massage and therapeutic conversation

Intervention Type OTHER

Cognitive Patient Education and PT

The comparison group will receive a combination of education about how to manage pain (COPE) followed by active individual physiotherapy.

Intervention Type OTHER

Other Intervention Names

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NPMP COPE- PT

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Patients With neck,shoulder and/or widespread pain
* Pain (≥ 3 Numeric Pain Rating Scale (NPRS)
* Functional problems measured with Orebro Musculoskeletal Pain Screening Questionnaire (OMPSQ), Neck Disability Index (NDI) and/or Shoulder Pain and Disability Inventory (SPADI)-been sick-listed for 4-8 weeks, or on the brink of becoming sick-listed, or having had residual neck- and shoulder complaints problems during the last two years with several short-term sick-leaves.
* =/6 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) tender points,
* Reduced Relaxation and Flexibility from the Global Physiotherapy Examination (GPE)

Exclusion Criteria

* Sick-listed \> 6 months
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

67 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Norwegian Fund for Postgraduate Training in Physiotherapy

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Tove Dragesund

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Tove Dragesund

Post doc

Responsibility Role SPONSOR_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Alice Kvåle, PhD

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

University of Bergen

Locations

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Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, UiB

Bergen, Hordaland, Norway

Site Status

Countries

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Norway

References

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Dragesund T, Kvale A. Study protocol for Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy versus Cognitive Patient Education in combination with active individualized physiotherapy in patients with long-lasting musculoskeletal pain - a randomized controlled trial. BMC Musculoskelet Disord. 2016 Aug 5;17:325. doi: 10.1186/s12891-016-1159-8.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 27496046 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id