Cancer Patient Perceptions of the Osteopathy Treatment: a Qualitative Study

Civil Hospices of Lyon

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cancer Patients

Treatments: Other: Ostheopathic treatment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02627638

2013.826

Details and patient eligibility

About

For more than seven years an osteopath has been working in the palliative care unit (PCU) and in both palliative care mobile team (PCMT) as a member of the multidisciplinary team. The patients referred to the osteopath by the palliative care physicians present pains related to cancer, but also to the treatment, in particular to surgery or radiotherapy. The osteopath can help with other symptoms such as constipation or dyspnoea. As this approach is provided in complement of the medicinal approach, it is not considered as an alternative medicine but as a complementary medicine associated to a conventional care. It seemed relevant to the investigators to ask the cancer patients undergoing osteopathic sessions for pain how they saw this complementary therapy.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Advanced illness patients with cancer pain, PS 0 to 2, willing to take part in the study and having signed the informed consent form

Exclusion criteria

• Non-communicating patients and patients whose cancer has been cured.
• Patients with fractural risk.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

Osteopathic treatment

Other group

Treatment:

Other: Ostheopathic treatment