Clinical trial NCT05689944: Dance-therapy and Chronic Pain
Official title: Effect of Dance-therapy on Chronic Adolescent Pain Patients - a Randomized Controlled Trial Study
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Phase: NA
Conditions: Chronic Pain
Complex Regional Pain Syndromes
Tension-Type Headache
Keywords: Dance-therapy
Chronic pain
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome
Tension Type Headache
Adolescents
Lead sponsor: Hospices Civils de Lyon
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2023-01-19
Enrollment: 210
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 12
Maximum age (years): 20
Standard ages: CHILD
ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: no
Allocation: RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Primary purpose: OTHER

Brief summary: Pain, when it becomes chronic, can be a threat to patients and it is very common to observe a fear of pain and a fear of movement (kinesiophobia). Avoidance of movement due to fear of pain can lead to a deterioration of body image. Non-medicinal therapies are essential to correct this fear and movement avoidance behavior, to decrease "catastrophic" judgments and thus anxiety. The use of art-therapy in the accompaniment of patients with pain has shown, in particular, decreases in the intensity of pain, the level of anxiety, an improvement in stress, mood and overall psychological state. However, according to the current literature, it appears that 1) this technique is rarely used in children or adolescents, for whom non-medicinal therapies are fundamental, and 2) in the case of chronic pain, the form of art used is very rarely related to the body (most often painting, drawing, music...).

In this project, investigators propose to set up and test the potential benefit of art-therapy sessions related to the body, namely dance-therapy, in adolescents and young adults suffering from chronic pain.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patients aged 12 to 20 years, girls or boys, with either complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) or chronic tension-type headache (CTTH).
* Diagnosis of CRPS or chronic CTTH made in a Pain Management Center
* Patients followed in a Pain Management Center (to ensure that patients entering the protocol have pain that is not relieved by conventional treatments)
* Patients who have given written consent for adults or whose parents have given consent for minors
* Patients who are affiliated with or benefit from a social security system.

Exclusion Criteria:

* Patients with headaches other than CTTH
* Patients with other neurological or psychological disorders
* Patients with psychiatric illnesses
* Patients with chronic pain conditions other than CRPS or CTTH
* Patients with chronic infectious, metabolic, cancerous, autoimmune diseases.
* Patients whose motor limitations are not related to the diagnosis of CRPS or CTTH (e.g. cerebral palsy, spinal cord injury...)
* Non-communicating patients including deaf and hard of hearing patients
* Patients or parents who do not speak or read French
* Pregnant women
* Dance or yoga professionals (dance or yoga teachers or those studying to become teachers)

Primary outcomes:
measure: Assesment of pain change
timeFrame: Weeks 0, 5, 16, 20 and 28.
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Kinesiophobia
timeFrame: Inclusion, weeks 5, 16, 20, 28.
measure: Anxiety (adolescents)
timeFrame: Inclusion, weeks 5, 16, 20, 28
measure: Anxiety (adults)
timeFrame: Inclusion, weeks 5, 16, 20, 28
measure: Pain catastrophizing
timeFrame: Inclusion, weeks 5, 16, 20, 28.
measure: Fear of Pain (adolescents)
timeFrame: Inclusion, weeks 5, 16, 20, 28.
measure: Fear of Pain (adults)
timeFrame: Inclusion, weeks 5, 16, 20, 28.
measure: Incidence of art therapy on quality of life (adolescents)
timeFrame: Inclusion, weeks 5, 16, 20, 28.
measure: Incidence of art therapy on quality of life (adults)
timeFrame: Inclusion, weeks 5, 16, 20, 28.
measure: Body satisfaction and global self-perception
timeFrame: Inclusion, weeks 5, 16, 20, 28.
measure: Incidence of art therapy on sleep quality
timeFrame: Weeks 0, 5, 16, 20 and 28.
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Bron
country: France
facility: Neuroscience Research Center of Lyon (CRNL)- INSERM U1028 - NEUROPAIN laboratory
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