Broken Promises (Part II)

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J - 10 Sep 2006 13:47 GMT

Maybe I should be posting clinical trials for pain?

My thinking...if a person's in clinical trial for pain, gives them a
different doctor to call, if the hospice doesn't respond quickly enough
(with medications) ?
J

http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/NCT00065195
The purpose of this study is to determine whether massage therapy is
effective in reducing pain and distress and improving quality of life
among cancer patients at life's end
Study start: November 2003; Expected completion: March 2007. Still
recruiting.

California
Colorado
Florida
Massachusetts
North Carolina

Study chairs or principal investigators

Jean S. Kutner, MD, Principal Investigator, University of Colorado

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Figgertoes - 10 Sep 2006 16:15 GMT

> http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/show/NCT00065195

I see our hospice on the list.

Qualife (out of business) offered massage but Socks' bone mets were a
problem. They also offered other body therapies others found relief from,
but Socks was not open to the idea. Treatments would have been free. I'm
not sure you have to believe in it for it to work, but you do have to get
the patient to try it! If nothing else, it's relaxing, comforting & human
touch adds a dimension if a person isn't receiving that.

Fig

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