Efficacy of Deep Haptic Massage in Fibromyalgia : Preliminary Study (FEM)

Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nice

Status

Completed

Conditions

Fibromyalgia

Treatments

Other: Massage

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02527551

15-AOI-06

Details and patient eligibility

About

Fibromyalgia syndrome (FMS) is a common chronic musculoskeletal pain disorder of unknown etiology, characterized by generalized body pain, hyperalgesia and other functional and emotional comorbidities. Women are predominantly affected. Long term prognosis of FMS might be severe by its physical and psychological consequences. The etiology of FMS remains unknown but recent studies suggest a disorder of central pain modulation, neurotransmitters, sympatho-adrenal and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal system and peripheral muscles issues. Indeed, muscular abnormalities with a decrease of ATP and micro vascularization have been reported, inducing muscle weakness and local biochemical changes that participate to pain hyper sensitivity. Treatment of FMS is only symptomatic, often difficult, associating pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapies. Massages are largely used in FMS and are included in chronic pain management recommendations.

Massages are recognized as haptic when the hands of the practitioner move on the skin of the patient; haptic massage is superficial if the pressure applied on the skin is similar to the weight of the hand and it's a deep haptic massage when the pressure applied is over the weight of the hand, allowing reaching deep muscle structure. Deep haptic massages are largely used for athlete to improve muscle recovery and treat tendinitis. All massages evaluate in FMS are superficial haptic massage; they are recognized as efficient on pain, anxiety and depression if they are performed at least on 5 weeks but these effects are transient et remain to be optimized. The efficacy of deep haptic massage has not been evaluated in pathological conditions. The investigators hypothesize that, in FMS patients, deep intramuscular maneuvers may solicit sensitive receptors, stimulating large caliber fibers A lemniscal conveyed by the way that bypass chronic pain information carried by the C fibers of the extra-lemniscal pathway: this is the "Gate Control" theory for inhibiting pain information.

Enrollment

20 patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18 to 65 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

Women aged 18 to 65 years
Fibromyalgia defined according to ACR criteria
Widespread pain index (WPI) ≥ 7 and Symptom Severity (SS) scale score ≥ 5 or WPI between 3 and 6 and SS scale score ≥ 9;
Presence of symptoms at the same intensity for at least 3 months;
Available to participate in the proposed sessions six weeks
Drug Therapy Stable fibromyalgia for one month without amendment in the next 6 months, excluding analgesics
Having signed an informed consent
Affiliated to a health insurance plan

Exclusion criteria

Vulnerable people: pregnant women, and breastfeeding women (a urine pregnancy test will be performed), minors, adults under guardianship, deprived of freedom, those hospitalized without consent, hospitalized in a health and social facility for other purposes as research, people unable to consent
Chronic Inflammatory joint disease associated
Other non-pharmacological treatments (acupuncture, cognitive-behavioral therapy etc ...)
Impairments severe visceral: heart, kidney, liver in the previous year
Individualized psychiatric pathology
Current Infectious diseases
Skin lesions contra-indicating massage