Dr. Laura Stuve, a Certified BodyTalk Instructor, Practitioner and a Ph.D. Molecular Biologist and geneticist, along with Janet Galipo, Senior BodyTalk Instructor, and 6 other American BodyTalk practitioners, performed a chronic pain study. The study was performed using distance sessions only, TARGETING CHRONIC PAIN, in individuals who HAD NEVER RECEIVED ANY BodyTalk before this study. These conditions were established to comply with the National Institute of Health and followed their guidelines using a randomized control trial - single blinded.
In order to control for the placebo effect, in keeping NIH grant credibility as the guideline, the distance sessions were established as the blinding effect. Assessments were done by Self Assessments using PROMIS, also NIH guidelines.
The subjects were any individuals who had chronic pain, on a pain scale from 0 – 10, (0 being no pain and 10 being excruciating – the same scale used in my hospital to rank pain), the pain rating had to be more than 4 on a subjective scale.
The conditions were that all subjects had to have all correspondence done remotely, and all sessions were distance sessions, meaning that all subjects corresponded via phone or website. Subjects were not allowed to use any other Complimentary Alternative Medicine modalities for the duration of the 9 week study. The only exclusions were that subjects had to be 18 or older and could not be on opiate based pain medications.
Measurements were recorded by statistician and professor at UCLA’s School of Medicine, Dr. Honghu Liu, Ph.D., who is actively teaching clinical study design and who helped develop the PROMIS initiative.
The control group, (who DID NOT receive BodyTalk sessions), reported a 15.4% improvement, while the study group, (who DID receive sessions), reported a 70.4% improvement!
When the statistical data was analyzed, a significant value will always measure under 0.05. The lower the value, the greater the significance of improvement- Clinical Data showed:
Pain Level – 0.0074
Pain Impact – 0.0493
Anxiety – 0.0025
Depression – 0.0321
Anger – 0.0061
Fatigue – 0.0333
After the study was over, all participants were asked which group they thought they were in. Only 1 person from the control group thought they were in the study group. However, nearly all of the participants in the study group thought they were receiving BodyTalk sessions.
This clinical study is truly inspiring and revolutionary. I see similar results in my nursing practice, which fuels my passion for The BodyTalk System. I look forward to more clinical studies where BodyTalk demonstrates significant clinical improvement!
