Immediate Effects of a 10-minute Body Scan Meditation on People Who Has Central Sensitization

NCT05498077 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: PSFMcConahay
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 15
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

For patients with chronic pain, how does a 10 minute guided body scan meditation affect pressure pain threshold and extent of pain on a body diagram?

Conditions

Chronic Pain

Keywords

Central Sensitization; Meditation

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (6)

• Global Rating of Change

  This is a form the subject fills out rating their overall pain experience after an intervention. The scale is from -7 (Significantly worse to +7 Significantly better) and measures the amount of change the person feels they have experienced.

  Immediately After intervention

• Pain pressure Threshold

  This is a pressure algometer the measures the sensitivity of an area on the body to direct pressure. It measures the amount of pressure that is applied to the subject's body. The clinician will apply pressure to the subject's skin at the tibialis anterior, lumbar paraspinals and upper trapezius muscles on the dominant hand side. The clinician will ask the subject "I want you to tell me the moment the sensation changes from pressure to discomfort and say "STOP". That is the reading/measurement the clinician will take. The outcome is assessing a change in pressure discomfort before the meditation and immediately after the meditation.

  Immediately Before and immediately after intervention

• Neck Disability Index

  This is a questionnaire to measure the amount of disability the subject perceives due to their neck pain.

  Immediately Before the intervention

• Oswestry Disability Index

  This is a questionnaire to measure the amount of disability the subject perceives due to their back pain

  Immediately Before the intervention

• Pain Body Diagram

  This is an body image drawing. The subject colors in the area on the image of where they are experiencing pain. This outcome is assessing the location and extent of the area of pain in the body and how it changes with the intervention. The way this is assessed is by dividing the body image drawing into a grid. The body pain diagram consists of an outline of the entire body from anterior and posterior views. An overlay is created dividing the body pain diagram into 45 anatomical regions The overlay is placed over the body pain diagram, and the examiner recorded a score of 1 if pain is indicated and 0 if no pain is indicated in each of the 45 regions. Pain is considered present if any portion of the region was shaded, no matter how small.

  Immediately Before the intervention and immediately after intervention

• Numeric Pain Rating Scale

  This is a scale assessing the subjects pain. It is a scale from 0 (no pain) to 10 (being the most severe pain). The subject will be assessed if their pain rating changed from before the intervention to after the intervention.

  Immediately Before the intervention and immediately after intervention

Study Arms (1)

10 minute body scan meditation

EXPERIMENTAL

Participants will be taken through a 10 minute body scan meditation by a physical therapist

Procedure: Body scan meditation

Interventions

Body scan meditation PROCEDURE

Subject is placed through a brief body scan meditation to determine whether this intervention affects a person's pain experience

10 minute body scan meditation

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 18 Years - 80 Years
• Sex: all
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Adult (18-64), Older Adult (65+)

You may qualify if:

• Subjects are from a convenience sample of patients seeking physical therapy care from a physician referral or direct-access to a privately owned physical therapy clinic English speaking
• Central Sensitization Inventory \> 40
• Subject complains of disproportionate non mechanical unpredictable pattern of pain provocation in response to multiple non-specific aggravating/easing factors
• Pain disproportionate to the nature and extent of injury or pathology
• Strong association with maladaptive beliefs and pain behaviors
• Diffuse, nonanatomic areas of pain and tenderness on palpation

You may not qualify if:

• Does not meet the criteria above

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Therapeutic Neuroscience Research Group: lead
• Rockhurst University: collaborator
• Evidence In Motion: collaborator

Study Sites (1)

Whole Body Health Physical Therapy

Portland, Oregon, 97212, United States

Location

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Chronic Pain

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Pain; Neurologic Manifestations; Signs and Symptoms; Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: NA
• Masking: NONE
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: SINGLE GROUP
• Sponsor Type: NETWORK
• Responsible Party: SPONSOR

Model Details: Case series

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: August 8, 2022
• First Posted: August 11, 2022
• Study Start: May 1, 2021
• Primary Completion: December 1, 2022
• Study Completion: December 1, 2022
• Last Updated: August 11, 2022

Record last verified: 2022-08

Data Sharing

• IPD Sharing: Will not share

Locations

US (1)