Immediate Effects of a 10-minute Body Scan Meditation on People Who Has Central Sensitization

Therapeutic Neuroscience Research Group15 enrolled

Overview

For patients with chronic pain, how does a 10 minute guided body scan meditation affect pressure pain threshold and extent of pain on a body diagram?

Patients who present with central sensitization in physical therapy will go through a 10 minute body scan meditation. If patient meets criteria then they will fill out pre-intervention measures including hand dominance, gender identity, duration of pain, work status, pain body diagram, current pain level, previous medication and a neck disability index or an oswestry disability index. Subject will then be asked what position they feel most comfortable to be led through this body scan meditation. After the meditation, the participant will fill out another pain body diagram, current pain level, global rating of change and pain pressure threshold. At this point the study is over and the subject will return to their physical therapy treatment.

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Enrollment

Conditions

Chronic Pain

Interventions

Body scan meditationPROCEDURE

Subject is placed through a brief body scan meditation to determine whether this intervention affects a person's pain experience

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 YearsMax age: 80 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Subjects are from a convenience sample of patients seeking physical therapy care from a physician referral or direct-access to a privately owned physical therapy clinic English speaking * Central Sensitization Inventory \> 40 * Subject complains of disproportionate non mechanical unpredictable pattern of pain provocation in response to multiple non-specific aggravating/easing factors * Pain disproportionate to the nature and extent of injury or pathology * Strong association with maladaptive beliefs and pain behaviors * Diffuse, nonanatomic areas of pain and tenderness on palpation Exclusion Criteria: * Does not meet the criteria above

Locations (1)

Whole Body Health Physical Therapy

Portland, Oregon, United States

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Global Rating of Change

This is a form the subject fills out rating their overall pain experience after an intervention. The scale is from -7 (Significantly worse to +7 Significantly better) and measures the amount of change the person feels they have experienced.

Time frame: Immediately After intervention

Pain pressure Threshold

This is a pressure algometer the measures the sensitivity of an area on the body to direct pressure. It measures the amount of pressure that is applied to the subject's body. The clinician will apply pressure to the subject's skin at the tibialis anterior, lumbar paraspinals and upper trapezius muscles on the dominant hand side. The clinician will ask the subject "I want you to tell me the moment the sensation changes from pressure to discomfort and say "STOP". That is the reading/measurement the clinician will take. The outcome is assessing a change in pressure discomfort before the meditation and immediately after the meditation.

Time frame: Immediately Before and immediately after intervention

Neck Disability Index

This is a questionnaire to measure the amount of disability the subject perceives due to their neck pain.

Time frame: Immediately Before the intervention

Oswestry Disability Index

This is a questionnaire to measure the amount of disability the subject perceives due to their back pain

Time frame: Immediately Before the intervention

Pain Body Diagram

This is an body image drawing. The subject colors in the area on the image of where they are experiencing pain. This outcome is assessing the location and extent of the area of pain in the body and how it changes with the intervention. The way this is assessed is by dividing the body image drawing into a grid. The body pain diagram consists of an outline of the entire body from anterior and posterior views. An overlay is created dividing the body pain diagram into 45 anatomical regions The overlay is placed over the body pain diagram, and the examiner recorded a score of 1 if pain is indicated and 0 if no pain is indicated in each of the 45 regions. Pain is considered present if any portion of the region was shaded, no matter how small.

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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