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Clinical Trials/ISRCTN56136713
ISRCTN56136713
Completed
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A randomised controlled trial of specialist Physiotherapy for Functional Motor Disorder (Physio4FMD)

St George's, University of London0 sites355 target enrollmentMarch 27, 2018

Overview

Phase
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Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
Not specified
Sponsor
St George's, University of London
Enrollment
355
Status
Completed
Last Updated
last year

Overview

Brief Summary

2019 Protocol article in https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31638942 protocol (added 23/10/2019) Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38768621/ (added 22/05/2024)

Registry
who.int
Start Date
March 27, 2018
End Date
February 16, 2023
Last Updated
last year
Study Type
Interventional
Sex
All

Investigators

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • 1\. New or returning patients presenting to participating outpatient neurology clinics and neurology inpatients
  • 2\. The patient has a clinically definite” diagnosis of FMD according to the Gupta and Lang diagnostic classification criteria (Gupta and Lang 2009\)\*
  • 3\. Aged 18 or over
  • 4\. Diagnostic investigations have come to an end
  • 5\. The patient is accepting of the intervention
  • 6\. Motor symptoms must be sufficient to cause significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of functioning (subjectively described by the patient), independent of other comorbidities
  • \* Gupta A, Lang AE. Psychogenic movement disorders. Curr Opin Neurol 2009;22:430–6\. doi:10\.1097/WCO.0b013e32832dc169

Exclusion Criteria

  • 1\. The recruiting neurologist deems the patient to have severe psychiatric co\-morbidity, including factitious disorder, self\-harm, anxiety and depression, which would interfere with the patient’s ability to participate in physiotherapy\*\*
  • 2\. The patient has an organic diagnosis which explains the majority of their symptoms or disability
  • 3\. pain, fatigue or dissociative seizures that would interfere with their ability to engage in the trial physiotherapy intervention
  • 4\. Disability to the extent that the patient requires assistance for toileting
  • 5\. The patient is unable to attend 9 sessions of physiotherapy over a 3 week period, within 6 weeks of initial neurology consultation
  • 6\. Ongoing unresolved compensation claim or litigation
  • 7\. The patient has no fixed address or is seeking rehousing through their council for disability access reasons
  • 8\. Unable to understand English sufficiently to complete questionnaires
  • 9\. The patient has a documented learning disability that prevents them from answering questionnaires independently
  • 10\. The patient lacks capacity to give consent

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

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