Fibromyalgia
Conditions
Keywords
body awareness therapy, physical therapy, movement therapy
Brief summary
A randomized trial of Basic Body Awareness Therapy (BBAT) is applied in fibromyalgia patients as compared with a control intervention consisting of treatment as an usual. Sessions of BBAT lasted 90 minutes each and took place twice a week for 5 weeks. The primary end point is a change in the Visual Analog Scale score and Body Awareness Rating Scale and the secondary end points include Hospital Anxiety Depression, State Trait Anxiety Inventory, Beck Depression Inventory and Short Form 36. All assessments will be repeated at post treatment, 12 weeks and 24 weeks
Detailed description
This work is a clinical trial of randomised and controlled groups. The hypothesis of study is that Basic Body Awareness Therapy applied in patients with fibromyalgia improves, more than usual treatment, the pain, normalization of postural pattern and movement, improve in psychologic state and improve of quality life. The study population will be selected followed the inclusion criteria of fibromyalgia, and will be selected in area of primary health center, the patients will be divided in 2 groups, control group and treatment group. The groups will be examined at the begin, at 1 month of the begin of treatment, in 3 months, 6 months and one year to evaluated the outcomes in long time. The dependence measurements will be Visual Analog Scale, Basic Body Awareness Rating Scale (BARS), SF-36, STAI A/R, BDI-II. The independence measurements will be demographic items: sex, age, country, level of studies, social status,..
Interventions
Basic body awareness therapy is a health oriented and person-centred approach with focus on the patient's resources. This is a method in physiotherapy, where we search to promote movement quality in daily life through self-exploration and self-experience.BBAT conceives the person from the biomechanical, physiological, bio-psycho-social and existential aspects, using the movement quality as a witness of the link in between all these perspectives.It can be done individually or in groups, through different daily life movements: lying, sitting, standing, walking, pair movements, use of voice and massages. BBAT has validated and reliable assesment tools, as BARS and BAS-I
Sponsors
Cristina Bravo
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* patients diagnosed of fibromyalgia according the American college of Rheumatology with 6 months at least * the patients have to stay in different position as lying, sitting and standing
Exclusion criteria
* pregnancy * suffering from another diseases that increase the pain or another specific diagnosis as rheumatic, heart disease and infectious disease
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Visual Analog Scale | up to 24 weeks | This scale evaluates the pain refered by patient with a scale from 0 to 10 being 10 the maximum pain |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Hospital Anxiety Depression | up to 24 weeks | this scale evaluates the level of depression and anxiety with a questionary that score goes from 0 to 21, being 21 the maximum level of disease |
| Beck Depression Inventory | up to 24 weeks | this scale evaluates the level of depression with a questionary that scores from 0 to 63, being 63 the maximum level of depression |
| State Trait Anxiety Inventory | up to 24 weeks | this questionary evaluates the level of anxiety that scores from 0 to 60, being 60 the maximum level of anxiety |
| Short Form 36 | up to 24 weeks | this questionary evaluates the quality of life in different components. The score goes from 0 to 100 being 100 the best score for quality of life |
Countries
Spain
Outcome results
None listed