Status:
NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Virtual Walking to Reduce Chronic Neuropathic Pain in Subjects With SCI
Lead Sponsor:
Swiss Paraplegic Research, Nottwil
Conditions:
Spinal Cord Injuries (SCI)
Neuropathic Pain Due to Spinal Cord Injury
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-75 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
About 70% of people with a spinal cord injury in Switzerland have chronic pain that lasts more than 3 to 6 months. This pain can be caused by muscle or joint problems, or by nerve damage (neuropathic ...
Detailed Description
Chronic pain conditions are highly prevalent in the Swiss spinal cord injury (SCI) population with a prevalence of 73% (Müller et al., 2017). Most of those individuals show multiple pain modalities (n...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Sufficient knowledge of German language to understand the instructions, assessments and to fill in questionnaires.
- Age ≥ 18y, ≤ 75y
- Chronic traumatic or non-traumatic SCI (\>6 month after SCI) with an SCI severity grade AIS A, B, C or D
- At or below level spinal cord injury neuropathic pain on trunk or lower extremities diagnosed by a neurologist following the ISCIP classification (Bryce et al., 2012) of at least 4/10 intensity on a NRS (Langford et al., 2023)
- Ability to draw with a pen
Exclusion
- \- Serious psychiatric disorders, which are accompanied by imminent or current acute harm to oneself or others, or which require inpatient psychiatric treatment for other reasons, or other indications of a foreseeable, seriously harmful effect of participation in the study based on the clinical impression from the psychological screening interview
- Participants with a walking ability more than 5 minutes without walking aids
- Pregnancy (anamnestic) in women of child-bearing age (18-49 years)
- Known epilepsy
- neurological disorders (multiple sclerosis, ALS, Guillan-Barré Syndrome, congenital disorders, polyneuropathy)
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
December 1 2025
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
November 30 2027
Estimated Enrollment :
40 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT07165353
Start Date
December 1 2025
End Date
November 30 2027
Last Update
November 18 2025
Active Locations (1)
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Schweizer Paraplegiker Zentrum Nottwil
Nottwil, Canton of Lucerne, Switzerland, 6207