NCT05063188

Connective Tissue Massage With Fibromyalgia

Is Connective Tissue Massage Effective In Individuals With Fibromyalgia?

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 32 (actual)
• Sponsor: Pamukkale University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 20 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of the study was to examine the effectiveness of clinical pilates exercises and connective tissue massage in individuals with Fibromyalgia (FM). 32 women were randomly divided into two groups as intervention (n=15, mean age=48.80±7.48) and control (n=17, mean age=55.64±7.87). While connective tissue massage and clinical pilates exercises were applied to the intervention group, control group were applied only clinical pilates exercises.According to our results, connective tissue massage increased the effectiveness of clinical pilates exercises in individuals with FM.

Conditions

• Fibromyalgia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Connective Tissue Massage	Connective tissue massage was started from lumbosacral region and continued lower thoracic, scapular, interscapular, and cervical regions, respectively.
OTHER	clinical pilates exercises	Exercises were applied 3 times for 6 weeks, a total of 18 sessions. One session consisted of 10 minutes of warm-up, 40 minutes of Clinical Pilates exercises and 10 minutes of cooling down (60 minutes in total).

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-09-10
• Primary completion: 2020-09-20
• Completion: 2020-10-15
• First posted: 2021-09-30
• Last updated: 2021-09-30

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)