Clinical Trial: Cupping in Fibromyalgia
Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional
Official Title: Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial: The Effectiveness of Cupping in Patients With Fibromyalgia
Brief Summary: The purpose of this randomized controlled study is to determine the effectiveness of cupping in patients with fibromyalgia compared to sham cupping.
Detailed Summary: see above
Sponsor: Universität Duisburg-Essen
Current Primary Outcome: Pain Intensity [ Time Frame: Day 18 ]
Original Primary Outcome: Same as current
Current Secondary Outcome:
- Pain Intensity [ Time Frame: Day 200 ]Pain intensity measured on a 100mm visual analog scale
- Fatigue [ Time Frame: Day 18 ]Fatigue measured by the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI) (Smets, Garssen, Bonke et al., 1995
- Fatigue [ Time Frame: Day 200 ]Fatigue measured by the Multidimensional Fatigue Inventory (MFI) (Smets, Garssen, Bonke et al., 1995
- Sleep Quality [ Time Frame: Day 18 ]measured by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) (Buysse et al. 1989)
- Sleep Quality [ Time Frame: Day 200 ]measured by the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) (Buysse et al. 1989)
- Quality of life [ Time Frame: Day 18 ]measured by the SF-36 (Bullinger & Kirchberger, 1998)
- Quality of life [ Time Frame: Day 200 ]measured by the SF-36 (Bullinger & Kirchberger, 1998)
- Medication [ Time Frame: Day 18 ]measured by a medication log, daily entering of used drugs
- adverse events [ Time Frame: Day 18 ]all adverse events
- Pressure pain sensitivity [ Time Frame: Day 18 ]using an electronic algometer (Somedic, Sweden) to determine threshold of pain perception on predefined muscles
- Disability [ Time Frame: Day 18 ]measured by the FI (fibromyalgia impact questionnaire) (Offenbaecher, Waltz, Schoeps , 2000)
- Disability [ Time Frame: Day 200 ]measured by the FI (fibromyalgia impact questionnaire) (Offenbaecher, Waltz, Schoeps , 2000)
Original Secondary Outcome: Same as current
Information By: Universität Duisburg-Essen
Dates:
Date Received: July 3, 2012
Date Started: June 2012
Date Completion:
Last Updated: April 21, 2015
Last Verified: April 2015