The effects of massage therapy on secondary conditions in people with spinal cord injury: psychological and physiological outcomes

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12615000136505

Enrollment

Registered

2015-02-12

Start date

2006-02-13

Completion date

2006-12-18

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

This RCT investigated the efficacy of massage therapy as a non-pharmacological, non-invasive treatment for people with SCI. It found that massage therapy can provide improvements in secondary conditions of SCI such as pain and fatigue

Interventions

Thirty minute Swedish Massage therapy. once a week for five consecutive weeks. The same qualified, experienced massage therapist worked with each subject for 5 weeks. Massage was applied while subject was seated. The same protocol of Swedish Massage was applied to back, neck and arms for each of the 5 sessions per subject. All massage therapists were female.

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Treatment

Masking

Blinded (masking used) (Subject, Investigator)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to 75 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Minimum duration of 12 months since SCI Spinal injury level at or below C4 Complete or incomplete lesion Male or female Fluent in English

Exclusion criteria

Prior psychopathology, traumatic brain injury, drug addiction or disease

Outcome results