The Effect of a Psychosensory Therapy

NYU Langone Health

Status: Completed

Conditions: Joint Replacement Surgery

Treatments: Procedure: Dummy Movements; Procedure: Psychosensory Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02765932

16-00712

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is a prospective study looking at the impact of psychosensory therapy and how it can diminish pain and consumption of pain medications. The primary study objective is to evaluate the change in Visual Analogue Score (VAS) score assessing for pain from Baseline, every day of inpatient stay, 7 days after leaving hospital (via phone), and 3 months post-op(via phone) and to correlate the psychosensory therapy and overall use of pain medications/narcotics.

Full description

The study will aim to enroll 50 subjects. 25 subjects will receive placebo therapy which will be dummy movements while the other 25 will receive psychosensory therapy. The treatment group will involve a touch technique called havening.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patient undergoing joint replacement surgery (Hip and Knee Only)
• Patient is willing to participate in pre- and postoperative surveys

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who have undergone joint replacement surgeries
• History of Chronic Narcotic Use (more than 30mg morphine dose)

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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50 participants in 2 patient groups

Placebo Therapy

Active Comparator group

Description:

Dummy Movements

Treatment:

Procedure: Dummy Movements

Psychosensory Therapy

Experimental group

Description:

Will involve touch technique, havening.

Treatment:

Procedure: Psychosensory Therapy