A randomized clinical trial for determining the efficacy of acupressure hand- and foot- reflexology in addition to the anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) compared with AEDs alone in the management of patients suffering from intractable epilepsy
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: null- Intractable epilepsy
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2010/091/001072
- Lead Sponsor
- Central Council for Research in Yoga Naturopathy
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 98
Patients of the age group of 3 years to 50 years and both genders had been included if they were the residents of Delhi or had some arrangements to stay in Delhi (the centre of study), for a period of minimum three months, and submitted of their own the filled-in consent proforma. They had been suffering from confirmed epilepsy with at least a frequency of 2 seizures per month, had failed 2 or more drugs in various rational combinations over a period of 2 or more years. They were surgical failures or were not the candidates for surgery. They were likely to stay on the stable and adequate doses of AEDs for a period of 3 months prior to the trial.
Any patient suffering from either or more of the following diseases has been excluded from this study: malignancy of any kind, brain tumor, encephalitis, meningitis, tuberculosis, HIV-infection, and any kind of organ resection due to any reason.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1.Response of the patients to the therapy which was measured in terms of improvement in reducing seizure frequency (R) <br/ ><br>2.No. of times seizures could be aborted during aura <br/ ><br>3.Quality of life in epilepsy <br/ ><br>Timepoint: 1 year 6 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1.Abnormal features noted on the reflex areas <br/ ><br>2.Any other associated symptom <br/ ><br>Timepoint: 1 year 6 months