The Effect of Slow Stroke Back Massage on Pain and Fatigue in Women With Fibromyalgia

TC Erciyes University

Status

Invitation-only

Conditions

Massage Intervention

Treatments

Behavioral: Massage

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT06277375

813/793

Details and patient eligibility

About

Fibromyalgia syndrome (FM) is defined as a non-inflammatory chronic pain syndrome with widespread pain in the musculoskeletal system, tender points (PINs) on physical examination and no specific laboratory findings. T Sampling was calculated using Power power (G Power 3.1.9.4) analysis. The effect size of the study was calculated based on the mean pain scores and standard deviations of the control and experimental groups taken from the study conducted by Field, et al. (2002). Accordingly, when 25 patients were included in each group, it was determined that the power was 85% at 5% Type I error level. The application to the experimental group will be done 3 days a week for 10 minutes for a total of 30 minutes. data will be collected with patient information form, fatigue severity scale and vas.

Full description

he research will be conducted experimentally with the aim of evaluating the effects of slow-stroke back massage in patients followed up in the physical therapy and rehabilitation unit with the diagnosis of fibromyalgia.

Enrollment

50 estimated patients

Sex

Female

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Able to communicate verbally,
Over 18 years of age,
no vision and hearing loss
who have received medical treatment,
who have never received a slow-stroke back massage before

Exclusion criteria

Initially volunteered to participate in the study, but did not like the application of slow-stroke back massage
who wants to leave the study for another reason