Status:
COMPLETED
Locating Nociceptive Stimuli on Digital Body Chart
Lead Sponsor:
IRCCS San Raffaele
Conditions:
Low Back Pain
Healthy Volunteers
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-70 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
Digital body charts are used to assess the pain experience in people with pain. People are asked to report their pain by shading a human body template on a digital tablet. The aim of this study is to ...
Detailed Description
Healthy volunteers and people presenting chronic low back pain, will be recruited. A standardized grid will be drawn over the participants' lumbar region. Circular electrodes, connected to a constant ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Chronic low back pain (duration more than three months)
Exclusion
- denial of informed consent;
- presence of pacemaker;
- pregnancy or possible pregnancy status;
- lumbar surgery (spinal fusion);
- documented degenerative pathology of the central nervous system;
- documented concomitant pathology altering sensitivity (e.g. diabetes, fibromyalgia);
- reduced motor control of the dominant hand (reported by every subject as conditioning the writing and therefore the ability to compile the body chart);
- presence of skin moles and/or scars on the back that may interfere with the conduction of the electrical stimulus.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
April 27 2018
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
January 31 2020
Estimated Enrollment :
72 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT03463109
Start Date
April 27 2018
End Date
January 31 2020
Last Update
March 23 2020
Active Locations (1)
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San Raffaele Scientific Institute
Milan, Italy, 20132