The Effects of Grounding (Earthing) on Bodyworkers' Pain and Overall Quality of Life: A Randomized Controlled Trial
Chevalier G, Patel S, Weiss L, Chopra D, Mills PJ
Explore (New York, N.Y.) · 8 citas
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Cómo se estudió
- Diseño
- Ensayo controlado aleatorizado (indexado por PubMed)
- Estudiado en
- Personas
- Resultado principal
- Marcadores de salud y funcionamiento
Quién lo pagó
- Financiación
- Financiación no declarada
Publicación
- Publicado
- 2018-10-11 · Explore (NY) · vol. 15 · número 3 · págs. 181–190
- Editorial
- Elsevier BV
- Citado
- 12 citas · más que el 62% de estudios similares · 0.3× el promedio de su campo
- Referencias
- 16 trabajos
- Acceso
- Acceso abierto (revista híbrida) · CC-BY-NC-ND
- Áreas de investigación
- Therapeutic Uses of Natural Elements · Occupational Therapy Practice and Research · Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Palabras clave
- Ground, Randomized controlled trial, Quality (philosophy), Medicine, Engineering, Internal medicine, Electrical engineering, Physics
- MeSH
- humans, pain, fatigue, complementary therapies, massage, affect, sleep, electrons, quality of life, adult, middle aged, occupational health, female, male, physical therapists, occupational stress
5 autores
- Gaétan Chevalier🇺🇸 · autor de correspondenciaUniversity of California San Diego
- Sheila Vipul Patel🇺🇸University of California San Diego; The Chopra Foundation
- Lizabeth M. Weiss🇺🇸The Chopra Foundation
- Deepak Chopra🇺🇸University of California San Diego; The Chopra Foundation
- Paul J. Mills🇺🇸University of California San Diego
Resumen
El texto original del estudio, en el idioma en que se publicó.
Background
It is well known that massage therapists routinely develop a number of health problems related to their profession.
Purpose
To determine the effects of grounding on massage therapists' quality of life and pain. Grounding, refers to being in direct body contact with the ground, such as walking barefoot on humid soil or on grass.
Setting
The Chopra Center for Well-Being in Carlsbad, California, USA.
Participants
Sixteen massage therapists (mean age 42.8 years).
Research design and intervention
A stepped wedge cluster design was incorporated into a 6-week double-blind Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) procedure with massage therapists assigned randomly into one of two cohorts. Therapists were not grounded for the first week, were grounded while working on clients and at home while sleeping for the next four weeks, and then ungrounded for the last week.
Outcome measures
Prior to, during, and immediately following the intervention, participants completed standardized questionnaires reporting on pain, physical function, anxiety, depression, fatigue/tiredness, sleep disturbance and number of hours of sleep, number of clients worked on per working day, energy, and emotional and mental stress.
Results
As a group, therapists experienced significant increases in physical function and energy and significant decreases in fatigue, depressed mood, tiredness and pain while grounded as compared to not being grounded. At one-month following the study, physical function was also increased and depressed mood and fatigue were decreased.
Conclusions
We observed consistent beneficial effects of grounding in domains highly relevant to massage therapists, namely pain, physical function, and mood. These findings, combined with prior results from this trial indicating improvements in inflammatory biomarkers, blood viscosity and heart rate variability (HRV), suggest that grounding is beneficial to massage therapists in multiple domains relevant to their occupation, supporting overall health and quality of life.
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