Mirror Therapy in Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type I

University Hospital, Motol

Status

Completed

Conditions

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type I

Treatments

Other: Mirror Therapy exercise

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06100107

EK-1288/14

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim is to evaluate the efficacy of Mirror Therapy on pain reduction and hand function in subjects with unilateral upper extremity Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type I.

Full description

Subjects were randomly divided into two groups. Group A carried out a ten-minute Mirror Therapy exercise daily, for a total duration of six weeks. Group B acted as a control group for six weeks followed by six weeks of Mirror Therapy with the same characteristics as Group A. Upper extremity active range of motion, strength, dexterity, limb volume, right-left temperature difference, and health-related quality of life were evaluated before and after each period. Daily records on the visual analogue scale were used for pain evaluation. Effectiveness was calculated using mixed-effects modelling for between-group comparisons and within-group variability and identifying significant predictors.

Enrollment

27 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 80 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

diagnosis of CRPS I based on the Budapest criteria

Exclusion criteria

failure to meet the diagnostic Budapest clinical criteria for CRPS I
previous use of Mirror Therapy prior to the commencement of this study
substantial difficulties in cooperation
a significant change to the subjects' treatment regimen, outside of the study design