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NCT Number: NCT02482792

Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy in Patients With Long-lasting Musculoskeletal Pain.

The aim is to examine the effect of Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy (NPMP) in employees with long-lasting musculoskeletal pain compared to employees receiving Cognitive Patient Education in combination with active individual physiotherapy (COPE-PT) on pain, function, quality of life and sick-leave

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Key information

Conditions

Physical Disability Musculoskeletal Diseases Neurologic Manifestations Pain Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Signs and Symptoms

Age range

18 year–67 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, UiB

Bergen, Hordaland, 5018, Norway

About this study

The NPMP is based on the assumption that patients with long-lasting problems, physical and/or psychological, may react with general aberrations related to posture, respiration, and movements, as well as with muscular tension and skin changes.

Employees With Long lasting musculoskeletal pain problems, working in the Municipality of Bergen, will be invited to participate in an Randomized Clinical Trial (RCT), and randomized to either receive Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy (NPMP) or a series of Cognitive Patient Education in combination with active individual physiotherapy (COPE-PT). The aim is to examine the effect of NPMP compared to those receiving COPE-PT on pain, function, quality of life and sick-leave.

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients With neck,shoulder and/or widespread pain
  • Pain (≥ 3 Numeric Pain Rating Scale (NPRS)
  • Functional problems measured with Orebro Musculoskeletal Pain Screening Questionnaire (OMPSQ), Neck Disability Index (NDI) and/or Shoulder Pain and Disability Inventory (SPADI)-been sick-listed for 4-8 weeks, or on the brink of becoming sick-listed, or having had residual neck- and shoulder complaints problems during the last two years with several short-term sick-leaves.
  • =/6 American College of Rheumatology (ACR) tender points,
  • Reduced Relaxation and Flexibility from the Global Physiotherapy Examination (GPE)

Exclusion criteria

  • Sick-listed > 6 months

Treatment and study plan

Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy

Other

The recruited patients will after randomization receive either Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy (NPMP) or COPE combined with active individual physiotherapy. In NPMP the treatment is individualized, targeting body-mind awareness through exercise, massage and therapeutic conversation

Other names: NPMP

Cognitive Patient Education and PT

Other

The comparison group will receive a combination of education about how to manage pain (COPE) followed by active individual physiotherapy.

Other names: COPE- PT

Primary outcomes

  1. Efficacy of Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy in Patients With Long-lasting pain

    Time frame: Change from baseline in pain at 3 months, at 6 months and 12 months.

    Pain on the Numeric Pain Rating Scale (NPRS)

Secondary outcomes

  1. Efficacy of Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy in Patients With Long-lasting pain

    Time frame: Change from baseline in wellbeing at 3 months, at 6 months and 12 months.

    Wellbeing on the Short Form-12 Health Survey (SF-12)

  2. Efficacy of Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy in Patients With Long-lasting pain

    Time frame: Change from baseline in sick-leave at 3 months, at 6 months and 12 months.

    Sick-leave

  3. Efficacy of Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy in Patients With Long-lasting pain

    Time frame: Change from baseline in shoulder function at 3 months, at 6 months and 12 months.

    Function on the Shoulder Pain and Disability Inventory (SPADI)

  4. Efficacy of Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy in Patients With Long-lasting pain

    Time frame: Change from baseline work related function at 3 months, at 6 months and 12 months.

    Function on the Norwegian Functional Assessment Scale (NFAS)

  5. Efficacy of Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy in Patients With Long-lasting pain

    Time frame: Change from baseline neck function at 3 months, at 6 months and 12 months.

    Neck Disability Index (NDI)

  6. Efficacy of Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy in Patients With Long-lasting pain

    Time frame: Change from baseline flexibility at 6 months.

    Global Body Examination-Flexibility (GBE)

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Tove Dragesund

Other

Collaborators

  • Norwegian Fund for Postgraduate Training in Physiotherapy

Registry information

Official study title

Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy Versus Cognitive Patient Education and Active Physiotherapy

Acronym: NPMP

Important dates

Study start
2013
Primary completion
2017
Study completion
2017
First posted
Jun 26, 2015
Registry last updated
Oct 27, 2017

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