The Efficacy, Acceptability, Tolerability and Feasibility of a Therapeutic Virtual Reality Application (PijnVRij)
Back Pain Lower Back Chronic, Quality of Life
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Back Pain Lower Back Chronic focused on measuring Virtual reality, Quality of life, Back pain
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patient suffers from chronic non-specific low-back pain (LBP) not attributable to a recognisable, known specific pathology (e.g. infection, tumour, osteoporosis, lumbar spine fracture, structural deformity, inflammatory disorder, radicular syndrome, or cauda equina syndrome).
- Patient reports a pain score related to chronic low-back pain ≥4.
- Patient is placed on the waiting list to receive intervention and receives no treatment yet, apart from medication or physiotherapy.
- At the day of recruitment, the estimated length of the waiting list for intervention is at least six weeks.
- Patient did not receive any invasive treatment for his chronic non-specific low-back pain in the last year.
- Patient is willing and able to comply with the trial protocol.
- Patient is at least 18 years old on the day the oral informed consent will be given.
- Patient can read and understand the Dutch language.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patient is included in another trial to evaluate new ways of treating pain.
- Patients suffers from severe anxiety or depression (HADS≥16).
Patient has difficulties to handle virtual reality:
- Patient suffers from delirium or acute confusional state.
- Patient has (a history of) dementia, seizure, or epilepsy.
- Patient has severe hearing/visual impairment not corrected.
- The skin of the patient's head or face is not intact (for example head wounds, psoriasis, eczema).
Sites / Locations
- Rijnstate
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
No Intervention
Intervention group: use of therapeutic virtual reality
Control group: no use of therapeutic virtual reality
Intervention group: use of virtual reality intervention at home over a period of 28 days (with a maximum of 35 days) at least ten minutes a day (excluding day 1, in which the participants should do the entire education module of 25 minutes) and in addition, when participants feel the need. Meanwhile, participant is placed on the waiting list to receive normal chronic pain treatment.
Control group: no intervention, patient is waiting to receive normal chronic pain treatment.