Osteopathy Treatment for Cancer Pain Related to the Confinement to Bed (OSTEO)

Civil Hospices of Lyon

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cancer Patient Confined in the Bed

Treatments: Other: Osteopathic treatment

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03440957

69HCL17_0723

Details and patient eligibility

About

Staying confined in the bed is frequent at the end of life. The cancer patients can also experiment this situation, and consequences are painful, with pain increasing with the time. This pain are related to the joints stiffing , muscles mass decreasing, and tendons retractions . The non pharmacological approach associated with the conventional treatments can be interesting to assess in this frails patients.

Enrollment: 22 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Man or woman
• Aged 18 years or older
• Having signed informed consent to participate in the study
• Patient affiliated to a social security scheme
• Patient with pain affecting the musculoskeletal system following prolonged bed rest
• Capable to understand French
• Capable of completing self-assessment scales

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with bone metastases at risk for the use of osteopathy
• Patients under legal protection measures
• Patients with cognitive impairment preventing self-evaluation
• Patient who is considered too fragile or with a clinical condition too unstable by the doctor refer to be included in the study
• Patients in the pre-agonic or agonic phase

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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22 participants in 1 patient group

Osteopathy treatment

Other group

Treatment:

Other: Osteopathic treatment