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NCT06619197: REFLEXODREPANO

Exploratory Study on Global Reflexology in Sickle Cell Disease

Recruiting now NA Last updated 8 July 2025
What this trial tests

NA trial testing Global reflexology in Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) in 30 participants. Currently enrolling.

Timeline
30 June 2025
Primary endpoint
30 July 2027
30 July 2027

Quick facts

Lead sponsorHospices Civils de Lyon
PhaseNA
StatusRecruiting now
Study typeINTERVENTIONAL
Allocationna
Designsingle group
Maskingnone
Primary purposesupportive care
Enrollment30
Start date30 June 2025
Primary completion30 July 2027
Estimated completion30 July 2027
Sites1 location across France

Drugs / interventions tested

Conditions studied

Sponsor

Hospices Civils de Lyon — full company profile →

Who can join

Under 18, any sex, with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD). Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Sickle cell disease (or sickle cell anemia) is the most common genetic disease in France with 586 children screened in 2019. This chronic disease is characterized by the presence of abnormal Hemoglobin (Hb) S and a deformation of the red blood cells which take the elongated shape of a sickle and become more rigid and more fragile. Sickle cell disease manifests itself among other things by very painful vaso-occlusive crises (VOC) and for some chronic pain. Their management is an emergency and often requires hospitalization. Despite analgesic treatment, some patients have persistent pain. In 2013, a childcare assistant trained in Canadian global reflexology EMC offered reflexology sessions to 12 sickle cell patients. She observed a relief in all patients with a decrease in the pain score in 8 of them. These sessions seem to show us a double interest: the reduction of the child\'s pain and the emergence of a technique that can be used by paramedics in the context of their own role. The investgators hypothesize that global reflexology is an effective and acceptable complementary technique for pain management in addition to the usual analgesic management in sickle cell children under 18 years of age in CVO. In order to verify our hypothesis, the investigators propose to explore the practice of Canadian global reflexology as an innovative therapeutic option complementary to drug treatments in the hospital management of sickle cell children.

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