NCT02482792

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

Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy Versus Cognitive Patient Education and Active Physiotherapy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 128 (actual)
• Sponsor: Tove Dragesund · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 67 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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

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

• Physical Disability

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	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
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.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-08-01
• Primary completion: 2017-10-26
• Completion: 2017-10-26
• First posted: 2015-06-26
• Last updated: 2017-10-27

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Norway