Motor Interference Therapy For Traumatic Memories

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder Clinical Trial

— TIMCO  

Official title:

The Effect of Motor Interference Therapy In Traumatic Memories: A Controlled Clinical Trial

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03627078
• Other study ID #: 69/17
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: March 1, 2016
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2019

Study information

• Verified date: July 2020
• Source: El Instituto Nacional de Neurologia y Neurocirugia Manuel Velasco Suarez
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The aim of the study is to compare the effect of motor interference therapy (TIM) to reduce the intensity of discomfort (distress) generated by a traumatic memory compared to a relaxation control maneuver, immediately after the intervention, a week, a month and six months after intervention.

Description:

The investigators treated 10 patients with autobiographical traumatic memories using finger tapping tasks, (Motor Interference Therapy )in a pilot study with amazing results and a solid size effect. The investigators decided to challenge the intervention using a control task (Jacobson´s progressive relaxation exercises) The hypothesis consists in achieving a 30% reduction of the distress, (measured with Visual Analogue Scale) by using TIM compared with the control task. Patients with traumatic memories will be enrolled in to one of two treatment modalities. The first group will receIve motor interference therapy and the second group will receive a control task (relaxation exercises). Both groups will be assessed using the Spanish version of the PTSD Symptom Severity Scale-Revised (EGS-R), the visual analogue scale (EQ-VAS) from EuroQol 5D (EQ-5D), and a simple visual-analogue scale (VAS) immediately after, a week after, a month after and six months after the treatment for follow up.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 28
• Est. completion date: December 31, 2019
• Est. primary completion date: March 30, 2019
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 16 Years and older

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients older than 16 years

• Spanish as a native language

• Give written informed consent

• having at least 1 traumatic memory causing distress

Exclusion Criteria:

• Neurological or psychiatric disorders that affect the capacity of verbal comprehension and judgment, such as dementia, psychosis, mental retardation or other cognitive alteration that does not allow them to perform the tasks indicated in the TIM or SHAM

• History of recent substance abuse

• Patients with significant hearing loss or some other hearing impairment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Psychological Trauma
• Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
• Stress Disorders, Traumatic
• Trauma, Psychological

Intervention

Other:
• motor interference therapy

• Relaxation exercises
In a top-down sequence, beginning with the upper body and proceeding to the lower parts. patients contract and relax a specific muscle group following the instructions given by the audio track. We use a shorter version that excludes the legs because of the time.

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Mexico	Instituto Nacional de Neurologia Y Neurocirugia Mvs	Mexico	Ciudad De Mexico

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
El Instituto Nacional de Neurologia y Neurocirugia Manuel Velasco Suarez

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Mexico, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Change in Visual Analogue Scale (EVA)	measures the distress related to traumatic memories in 1-10	baseline, immediately, 1 week, 1 month, 6 months
Secondary	Spanish version of the PTSD Symptom Severity Scale-Revised (EGS-R)	Posttraumatic stress disorder scale	baseline, 1 week, 1 month, 6 months
Secondary	visual analogue scale (EQ-VAS) from EuroQol 5D (EQ-5D)	as a gauge of health-related quality of lif	baseline, 1 week, 1 month, 6 months