Efficacy of Myofascial Induction as a Manual Therapy Technique in Patients With Anxiety

Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Status: Completed

Conditions: Anxiety

Treatments: Other: Myofascial treatment; Other: Sham myofascial treatment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04826302

MyofascialAnxiety

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the efficacy of a myofascial intervention as a technique within manual therapy in the treatment of clinical anxiety in adults. Half of the participants will receive a myofascial intervention program, while the other half will receive a sham myofascial intervention.

Full description

Within physiotherapy, some studies have been carried out with psychological outcome measures, mainly from therapeutic exercise, but there continues to be an important documentary gap and the few results are not conclusive.

The myofascial approach is presented as an effective tool for the treatment of different pathologies, mainly musculoskeletal. However, few are the studies that relate it to psychological variables and specifically to improve anxiety levels.

The myofascial approach is proposed as a fast and low-cost tool for the management of clinical anxiety.

Enrollment: 36 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Be between 18 and 65 years old
• Subjects with high levels of anxiety
• Subjects who speak and understand Spanish correctly
• Subjects without previous experience in myofascial treatment

Exclusion criteria

• Subjects with a clinical history of cognitive impairment
• Subjects with systemic, neurological or muscular diseases
• Subjects with some type of aneurysm diagnosed
• Subjects with diagnosed extremely high blood pressure
• Subjects with diagnosed malignant tumors
• Subjects with diagnosed vertebrobasilar insufficiency
• Subjects with a diagnosed dermatological condition
• Subjects diagnosed with epilepsy
• Pregnant women or with the possibility that they may be

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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36 participants in 2 patient groups

Myofascial treatment

Experimental group

Description:

4 sessions of myofascial intervention, 40 minutes per session, 1 session per week

Treatment:

Other: Myofascial treatment

Sham myofascial treatment

Sham Comparator group

Description:

4 sessions of sham myofascial intervention, 40 minutes per session, 1 session per week

Treatment:

Other: Sham myofascial treatment