Open AccessPranic Healing as a Complementary Therapy in Managing Fibromyalgia: A Case Report
Author(s) -
MKS Vinushree
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2021/50854.15436
Subject(s) - fibromyalgia , physical therapy , medicine , distress , tenderness , chronic pain , physical medicine and rehabilitation , surgery , clinical psychology
Fibromyalgia is a chronic pain syndrome with main symptoms including pain and tenderness in various parts of the body along with sleep deprivation, fatigue, cognitive dysfunction, and emotional distress. Pranic Healing (PH) is a traditional no-touch healing technique based on balancing the body’s energy centres or chakras. Here, a case of a 37-year-old female is presented who was diagnosed with fibromyalgia, with pain, stiffness, and sleep disturbances as major symptoms. These symptoms were measured using the Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) score. She received distant PH as a complementary therapy to manage chronic pain and exhaustion symptoms. PH was effective in significantly reducing the severity of fibromyalgia symptoms, including pain by 40% and stiffness by 60%, and improving the quality of sleep by 60% after eight sessions of PH. Thus, PH has the potential to be used as a complementary non pharmacological therapy besides conventional pharmacological approaches to manage fibromyalgia.