A double-arm Randomised Controlled Pilot trial investigating the comparative impact of complementary Pranic healing and Conventional Therapy for chronic low backache
试验速览
- 阶段
- 1 期
- 状态
- 招募中
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 94
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- pain perception score of patients
研究概览
简要总结
| Chronic low backache is defined as pain that |
| continues for 12 weeks or longer, even after an initial injury or underlying |
| cause of acute low backache has been treated. It is a common ailment across |
| the world with an estimated prevalence of 4.2% in individuals aged between 24 |
| and 39 years old and 19.6% in those aged between 20 and 59 which increases |
| linearly from the third decade of life on, until the 60 years of age, being |
| more prevalent in women. |
Comprehensive pain management of chronic low backache relies on the use of pharmacotherapy, physical therapy, and a multidisciplinary approach to treatment. Recent studies have shown a benefit for traditional adjunctive therapies and interdisciplinary treatment.
A few traditional adjunctive therapies which have been applied for management of chronic low backache include energy therapies like Biofield therapy which includes Pranic Healing = also called as Yoga based biofield therapy (also known as yogic healing in India).
Biofield therapies are noninvasive therapies in which the practitioner explicitly works with a client’s biofield (interacting fields of energy and information that surround living systems) to stimulate healing responses in patients.10 This biofield is also known as pranamaya kosha as mentioned as Taittiriya-Upanishad.
Pranic healing (PH), standardized and taught by Master Chao Kok Sui (Chao, 1993) from the Philippines is a procedure of manipulating this pranic energy body which is felt and or seen as an aura or energy field around the physical body has shown to be effective in management of Chronic lower backache, colorectal cancer pain and fibromyalgia.
Yogic healing is a similar to Pranic healing and work simultaneously at all koshas. As a biofield therapy with no current evidence to show its efficacy for chronic low backache pain relief.
Hence, the current randomized controlled pilot trial is thus being undertaken to investigate the effect of complementary Pranic healing in lowering the intensity of chronic low backache compared to only conventional therapy.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18.00 Year(s) 至 60.00 Year(s)（—）
- 性别
- All
入选标准
- •Patients with no radiculopathy features II.
- •Patient with chronic low backache for more than 3 months.
排除标准
- •Patient with infective, neoplastic, traumatic etiology of lower backache II.
- •Patients who don’t consent for the study III.
- •Patients with indication for invasive procedures for pain relief as per expert.
结局指标
主要结局
pain perception score of patients
时间窗: Baseline, 1 month, 2 months and 3 months | To compare the pain perception score of patients among complimentary pranic healing and Conventional therapy arms using Visual analogue scale
次要结局
- To assess the functional improvement in lower backache following the individual therapies using Rolando Morris Disability questionnaire and Oswestry Disability Index(Frequency: 30 mins each session for 2 times a week)
研究者
Dr Rakesh Sharma
All India Institute of Medical Sciences Rishikesh