NCT04007172

Effectiveness of Neural Therapy in Patients With Fibromiyalgia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (actual)
• Sponsor: Hitit University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Neural therapy is a regulation therapy that tries to correct this underlying autonomic dysfunction. In neural therapy; local painful areas, trigger points and symptomatic segments are included in the injection using local anesthetics and the underlying disruptive areas are investigated and treated. The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of neural therapy in fibromyalgia syndrome which is thought to have a neuroendocrine dysregulation disorder.

Detailed description

Fibromyalgia is a chronic disease characterized by widespread body pain, fatigue, sleep disturbance, and tenderness on palpation at trigger points in the musculoskeletal system. Fibromyalgia prevalence is reported between 3% and 9%, and is three times more common in women than men. Although pharmacological and non-pharmacological approaches play a role in the treatment of the disease, the interest in non-pharmacological therapies has recently increased. In several studies, it has been shown that almost every fibromyalgia patient has applied at least one alternative and complementary medicine method such as Qigong, Tai Chi, yoga, mind body interventions, acupuncture, hydrotherapy, balneotherapy or phytotherapy. Neural therapy is a regulation therapy that tries to correct this underlying autonomic dysfunction. In neural therapy; local painful areas, trigger points and symptomatic segments are included in the injection using local anesthetics and the underlying disruptive areas are investigated and treated. The aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of neural therapy in fibromyalgia syndrome which is thought to have a neuroendocrine dysregulation disorder.

Conditions

• Fibromyalgia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	neural therapy	Intracutaneous quaddle injections were performed using 1% lidocaine preparation as a local anesthetic for local application to painful points with palpation on the back and shoulders and for the segmental application, 2 cm lateral to the midline of the C1-T5 vertebrae and on spinous processes.
DEVICE	Physical Therapy	Physical therapy program was consist of transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation- TENS (30-40 Hz, 20 minutes), hotpack (20 minutes) and continuous ultrasound (1mHz, 1.5w / cm2, 10 minutes) on painful points with palpation on the back and shoulders.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-01-20
• Primary completion: 2019-04-20
• Completion: 2019-05-14
• First posted: 2019-07-05
• Last updated: 2019-07-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)