Chronic spine pain
Conditions
Interventions
Study group: 26 individuals of both sexes (3 males and 23 females), 33–82 years, and with chronic back pain. Subjects received 12 sessions of a treatment of distant healing with biometenergy (subtle e
Other
K01.752.667.710
Sponsors
Universidade de Brasilia
Universidade de Brasilia
Eligibility
Age
18 Years to 85 Years
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: Volunteers, both genders, with back pain longer than 3 months, recent medical report, older than 18 years old, no previous participation of pranic meditation courses and no have any knowledge about the techniques of pranic meditation, and the written informed consent
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: Smokers; alcohol users; pracitioners of pranic meditation
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| It was expected that the treatment with biometenergy emitted with intention of healing was capable of reducing the chronic spine pain ;After 6-week of study the primary endpoint was the significant reduction of spine pain in subjects treated with biometenergy, as verified by values of McGill Pain Questionnaire. There was also significant reduction in the intensity of spine pain immediately after each daily treatment, according to scores of the Faces Pain Scale (FPS) applied before and after BME-treatment sessions | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| It was supposed that the treatment would be capable of causing a increasing effect in the temperature of skin along the spine collumm;There was a significant reduction of the skin temperature along the vertebral column in subjects treated with biometenergy. This result was obtained with based on average of the temperature values recorded by a infrared camera capable of capturing and recording infrared radiation emitted by human body | — |
Countries
Brazil
Contacts
Public ContactCarlos;César Tosta;Fernandes
Universidade de Brasilia;Universidade de Brasilia
Outcome results
None listed