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The Effect of Perception of Improvement in Patients With Fibromyalgia

Not Applicable
Not yet recruiting
Conditions
Fibromyalgia
Interventions
Other: Breathing exercise
Registration Number
NCT06508385
Lead Sponsor
Istanbul Medeniyet University
Brief Summary

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic pain syndrome characterized by impaired perception, transmission, and processing of nociceptive stimuli and causing widespread pain. Pain in FM is the disease itself and is characterized by nociplastic pain that may occur independently of any peripheral nociceptor activity or be felt without disease or damage to the somatosensory system. It is thought that the pain processing process is disrupted due to the changing neurotransmitter release activity and this situation causes pain to be felt more in FM. Chronic pain is the result of perception alteration associated with nociceptive afferent information affecting the cortex; underlying this change are limbic emotional learning mechanisms. Numerous factors, including emotional state, attention, and past painful experiences, modulate nociceptive inputs with the activation of multiple brain regions, resulting in a personalized pain experience. The chronic pain management program should target the central nervous system rather than the peripheral tissues because pain originates in the sensitized nervous system. For this reason, it is important to include plasticity-oriented approaches, cortical disinhibition methods, and strategies for improving perception and behavior change, which aim to replace negative beliefs with positive beliefs, into clinical practice. Our project aims to investigate the effectiveness of the therapeutic intervention, which consists of patient education supported Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), visual feedback and metaphor-assisted breathing therapy designed to provide a perception of improvement and presented in a virtual reality environment, on pain processing, pain intensity, pain-pressure threshold, psychosomatic reflections (biomechanical and viscoelastic properties of tissue, sleep quality, pain catastrophizing behavior, anxiety and depression), disease impact and quality of life in FM patients.

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Sex
Female
Target Recruitment
39
Inclusion Criteria

Diagnosed with Fibromyalgia at least 1 year ago according to ACR criteria

Age range 25-55

Female

Scored at least 24 on the Mini-Mental State Assessment Test

Reported weekly pain intensity of at least 40 mm on the Visual Analog Scale

Be on a stable dose of medication for at least 6 months (serotonin norepinephrine reuptake inhibitors [e.g., duloxetine, milnacipran]; alpha 2-delta receptor ligand [e.g., pregabalin]; gabapentinoids)

Exclusion Criteria

Having inflammatory rheumatic disease, malignancy, neurological disease, connective tissue disease, severe anemia, uncontrolled endocrine diseases

Body Mass Index (BMI) ≥ 30 Kg/m2

Being pregnant

Having inability to understand, read and speak Turkish

Having difficulty in hearing and seeing

Having any metallic or electronic device in the body that will create incompatibility with the magnetic field in the fMRI scan Having any disease diagnosis (serious psychotic disorder, delirium, mental retardation, epilepsy, heart disease, lung diseases, etc.) that may prevent participation in the evaluation and training to be conducted within the scope of the research

Study & Design

Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Study Design
PARALLEL
Arm && Interventions
GroupInterventionDescription
Virtual Reality Group-1Breathing exerciseNLP-supported patient education will be given. Visual feedback and metaphor-assisted breathing therapy over the three most painful points in the McGill-Melzack Pain Scale (real painful points) were given to this group in virtual reality environment.
Control GroupBreathing exerciseNLP-supported patient education will be given and breath therapy will be applied to the Control Group
Virtual Reality Group-2Breathing exerciseNLP-supported patient education will be given. Visual feedback and metaphor-assisted breathing therapy over the contralateral of the points reported as the three most painful points in the McGill-Melzack Pain Scale (virtual painful points) to this group in a virtual reality environment
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Functional Magnetic ResonanceMeasurement of changes from baseline process of processing pain will be measured at 6 week and 10 week

The process of processing pain will be determined by functional magnetic resonance imaging performed immediately before and after the experimental pressure pain. ROI analysis will ve performed. No score is defined.

Measurement of pain-pressure thresholdMeasurement of changes from baseline of pain-pressure threshold will be measured at 6 week and 10 week

Pain-pressure threshold evaluated with a pain threshold measuring device (Algometer).

Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Sleep QualityMeasurement of changes from baseline of sleep quality will be measured at 6 week and 10 week

Sleep quality will be evaluated with Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index. Score is between 0 (the best sleep quality) and 21 (the worst sleep quality)

Functional status and disease impactMeasurement of changes from baseline of functional status and disease impact will be measured at 6 week and 10 week.

Functional status and disease impact will be evaluated with Revised Fibromyalgia Impact Questionnaire. Score is between 0 (no disease impact and 100 (the highest disease impact)

Quality of Life of patientsMeasurement of changes from baseline of quality of life will be measured at 6 week and 10 week

Quality of Life will be measured with QOL Short Form 12. Score is between 0 (the lowest quality of life and 100 (the highest quality of life)

Anxiety and Depression StatusMeasurement of changes from baseline of anxiety and depression status will be measured at 6 week and 10 week

Anxiety and Depression will be evaluated with Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale. Score is between 0 (no anxiety and depression risk) and 21 (the highest anxiety and depression risk)

Pain catastrophizing behaviorMeasurement of changes from baseline of changes from baseline of pain catastrophizing behaviors will be measured at 6 week and 10 week

Assessing pain catastrophizing behavior will be evaluated with Pain Catastrophizing Scale. Score is between 0 (no pain catastrophizing behavior) and 52 (the highest pain catastrophizing behavior)

Patient satisfactionMeasurement of changes from baseline of patient satisfaction will be measured at 6 week and 10 week

Patient satisfaction will be evaluated with Global Rating of Change. No score is defined.

Measurement of biomechanical characteristics of tissueMeasurement of changes from baseline decrement values of tissue will be measured at 6 week and 10 week]

Decrement values of tissue will be measured with myotonPro B1 over the three most painful points in Control Group and Virtual Reality-1 Group.

Decrement values of tissue will be measured with myotonPro B1 over the contralateral of the points reported as the three most painful points in Virtual Reality-2 Group.

Measurement of viscoelastic characteristics of tissueMeasurement of changes from baseline relaxation time values of tissue will be measured at 6 week and 10 week]

Relaxation time values of tissue will be measured with myotonPro B1 over the three most painful points in Control Group and Virtual Reality-1 Group.

Relaxation time values of tissue will be measured with myotonPro B1 over the contralateral of the points reported as the three most painful points in Virtual Reality-2 Group.

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Nilüfer kablan

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Istanbul, Kartal, Turkey

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