Study protocol for Norwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy versus Cognitive Patient Education in combination with active individualized physiotherapy in patients with long-lasting musculoskeletal pain – a randomized controlled trial

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders

Study Protocol

Tove Dragesund¹  Alice Kvåle² 

[1] Department of Global Public Health and Primary Care, University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway;Department of Occupational therapy, Physiotherapy and Radiography, Faculty of Health and Social Sciences, Bergen University College, Bergen, Norway;

关键词: Fibromyalgia;    Sick Leave;    Randomize Clinical Trial;    Musculoskeletal Pain;    Tender Point;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12891-016-1159-8

 received in 2016-02-09, accepted in 2016-07-12,  发布年份 2016

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundNorwegian Psychomotor Physiotherapy (NPMP) has been an established treatment approach for more than 50 years, although mostly in the Scandinavian countries, and is usually applied to patients with widespread and long-lasting musculoskeletal pain and/or psychosomatic disorders. Few studies have been investigating outcome of NPMP and no randomized clinical trials (RCT) have been systematically tried out on individuals.Methods/designThis is a study protocol for a pragmatic, single blinded RCT, which will take place in a city of Norway. The participants will be block randomized either to receive NPMP or Cognitive Patient Education in combination with active individualized physiotherapy (COPE-PT). The intervention will reflect usual care and will be conducted in physiotherapy clinics by five experienced physiotherapists in each of the two treatment approaches.DiscussionThe findings of the present study may give an important contribution to our knowledge of the outcome of NPMP, on patients with long-lasting widespread musculoskeletal pain and/or pain located to the neck and shoulder region.Trial registrationThe study has been registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (June 9 th 2015, NCT02482792).

【 授权许可】

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© The Author(s). 2016