The goal of this interventional study is to learn if graded motor imagery with or without added neural mobilization can treat chemotherapy induced nerve related symptoms in lower limbs of cancer patients. The main questions it aims to answer are: \- Does graded motor imagery yields any added effects in relieving nerve related symptoms due to chemotherapy in lower limbs of cancer patients to the effects of nerve mobilization? Researchers will compare the effects of graded motor imagery as a standalone therapy (Group A) to the effects of graded motor imagery with nerve mobilization (Group B) Participants will take treatment sessions according to their allocated group, two sessions per week for six weeks.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Enrollment
48
Graded motor imagery is a series of three steps. The first step, lateral recognition, includes graded left and right judgment exercises. The second step involves imagining the performance of movements and the third, and last step involves performing movements in front of a mirror.
Nerve mobilization allows movement between structures of nervous system and its surrounding areas. It is used to mobilize the nervous system and maintain equilibrium inside the nervous system as well as in structures present in its surroundings.
The University of Faisalabad
Faisalābad, Punjab Province, Pakistan
LANSS
Leeds Assessment of Neuropathic Symptoms and Sign
Time frame: Baseline, week 3 (mid-intervention), week 6 (post intervention)
Romberg Test
Quantitative version of Romberg Test
Time frame: Baseline, week 6 (post-intervention)
EORTC-QLQ-CIPN20
European Organization of Research and Treatment of Cancer-Quality of Life Questionnaire-Chemotherapy Induced Peripheral Neuropathy 20
Time frame: Baseline, week 6 (post-intervention)
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