Active clinical trials for "Chronic Pain"

We would like to determine how well hypnosis works when induced through virtual reality medium for patients who have suffered a major burn injury in the past two years and suffer from chronic pain. These patients are coming back to the outpatient burn and plastic clinic at Harborview Medical Center for routine follow-up. We think that patients will find VR-Hypnosis interesting, and it will help them relax and feel less pain.

The objective of this study is to check whether vitamin D will lead to a decrease in pain intensity compare to placebo, in patients suffering from chronic pain.

Treatments teaching people how to manage pain have been used to treat chronic pain in the general population. The purpose of this study is to see if these treatments delivered over the telephone can benefit persons with multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury or an acquired amputation. Specifically, we want to determine if these treatments can help reduce the negative consequences that pain often causes in terms of a person's mood, daily activities, and enjoyment of life. We are also interested in finding out if these treatments decrease a person's pain.

Chronic pain after inguinal hernia repair has become a major concern. Although tension-free Lichtenstein technique is used and new lightweight meshes have been developed, still up to 40 % of patients complain of some kind of pain even one year after surgery. The necessity of mesh-fixation using sutures, could be causative. However, current data do not provide evidence whether suture fixation in Lichtenstein repair might be the reason for chronic postoperative pain. A newly developed selfgrip-mesh enables sutureless fixation of the mesh in open inguinal hernia repair. Hereby a polypropylene mesh is combined with a resorbable polylactic-acid gripping system. Thereby the rate of chronic postoperative pain could be decreased. Two techniques of inguinal hernia repair will be evaluated: open anterior mesh repair using conventional Lichtenstein technique (sutures for mesh-fixation) open anterior mesh repair using a selfgrip mesh (polylactic-acid gripping system for mesh fixation) Postoperative pain will be evaluated by visual analog scale and Mc Gill pain questionaire at the 10th day, as well as 3 and 15 months postoperatively.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the impact of a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) intervention on the distribution and variability of pain level before and after intervention receipt among people with co-occurring chronic pain and Substance Use Disorders (SUDs) over a three-month follow-up period.

Aim 1: Develop and manualize the Education and Gentle Exercise intervention. Using focus groups, clinical reasoning, literature, and findings from previously tested interventions of yoga and self-management, the researchers will develop, refine, and standardize the Education and Gentle Exercise intervention for chronic pain. In parallel, the researchers will develop a control group that includes exercise and health and wellness education. The expected outcomes include Education and Gentle Exercise intervention workbooks for participants and training and teaching manuals for interventionists leading the Education and Gentle Exercise intervention group and control group. Aim 2: Assess feasibility and acceptability of an online intervention, the Education and Gentle Exercise and research procedures including planned assessments. In this small RCT, the researchers will examine feasibility and acceptability of the 8-week Education and Gentle Exercise procedures and intervention compared to an exercise and health and wellness education control group. Participants will include 30 caregiving dyads randomly assigned to the two groups (15 dyads for Education and Gentle Exercise, and 15 dyads for control group; N = 30 dyads/60 participants). The primary hypothesis is that Education and Gentle Exercise will be feasible and acceptable to caregiving dyads, as measured by benchmarks for recruitment, screening, attendance, and completion of assessments and intervention. Surveys will be administered and focus groups will be conducted to understand participant satisfaction and experiences with Education and Gentle Exercise. After each intervention session, interventionists, caregivers, and care recipients will rate their satisfaction with the session content and activities.

the aim of this trial is to compare dry needling and magnesium sulphate iontophoresis in subjects with mechanical neck pain

Participants with chronic back pain will complete an online eligibility questionnaire. After signing a consent form, eligible participants enter a two-week baseline period ("Baseline Period") during which they complete a daily pain survey. Following the Baseline Period all participants complete an MRI scan. After the MRI, scan participants are randomized into a treatment group ("Therapy Group") or a no-intervention group ("Standard of Care Group" or "SOC Group") with a ratio of 1:1 (treatment:SOC). Therapy Group participants receive education about chronic pain. They also participate in sessions to personalize their Virtual Reality (VR) experience, and to complete training on the use of the VR hardware and software. Therapy Group participants complete the treatment for 8 weeks ("Therapy Period"), after which they return the VR equipment. All participants take a second MRI scan approximately 8-weeks after the first MRI; for the Therapy Group this is at the end of the Therapy Period. After the Therapy Period, Therapy Group participants continue to complete daily pain surveys during a two-week follow-up period ("Follow-Up Period"). All participants complete self-reported clinical outcomes and behavioral measures surveys before and after the Baseline Period, 4 weeks after the first MRI (for Therapy Group this is mid-way through the Therapy Period), and before and after the Follow-Up Period. For Therapy Group participants the study ends with the final surveys and an exit interview at the end of the Follow-up Period. Study Extension (Add-on): SOC Group participants may receive the treatment after the Follow-Up period. Those who elect to do so will complete the same set of surveys as the Therapy Group did during the treatment phase; however, since there is no comparison group, data from this study extension is not used in the main outcomes analyses.

Patient autonomy is recognized throughout the world, by caregivers, as a value. The idea of autonomy has been the keystone of the changes accomplished in the contemporary history of health law. It is about respect for everyone to have their own health and to choose the options that correspond to their wishes, their values or their life projects. The recently revised definition of pain specifies that it is "an unpleasant sensory and emotional experience associated with, or resembling that associated with, actual or potential tissue damage". In this, pain is always a personal experience that is influenced to varying degrees by biological, psychological and social factors. The High Authority of Health considers pain as chronic is considered when it is persistent or recurrent beyond what is usual for its presumed initial cause (most often beyond 3 months), that it responds harm to treatment and that they induce a significant and progressive deterioration of functional and relational capacities. Chronic pain confines patients on a psychosocial level. It is no longer just a symptom, it is even a disease in its own right since 2019 with the new classification of diseases proposed by the World Health Organization.In France, chronic pain concerns 31.7% of French people regardless of its intensity, and 19.9% of French people for moderate to severe pain, which represents 13 million people in total. As with any chronic disease, the patient suffering from persistent pain must develop the ability to adapt to cope with the new situation with which he is confronted. He must be able to acquire knowledge and new know-how related to his pathology and thus finally find a new homeostasis, a new state of health having integrated "the pathological state". In France, chronic pain concerns 31.7% of French people regardless of its intensity, and 19.9% of French people for moderate to severe pain, which represents 13 million people in total. As with any chronic disease, the patient suffering from persistent pain must develop the ability to adapt to cope with the new situation with which he is confronted. He must be able to acquire knowledge and new know-how related to his pathology and thus finally find a new homeostasis, a new state of health having integrated "the pathological state".In France, chronic pain concerns 31.7% of French people regardless of its intensity, and 19.9% of French people for moderate to severe pain, which represents 13 million people in total. As with any chronic disease, the patient suffering from persistent pain must develop the ability to adapt to cope with the new situation with which he is confronted. He must be able to acquire knowledge and new know-how related to his pathology and thus finally find a new homeostasis, a new state of health having integrated "the pathological state". In current practice, this skill is assessed in case of doubt (generally when there is uncertainty about the patient's understanding of the issues and his involvement in the therapeutic project) intuitively, by following a Socratic questioning or from grids like the MacCAT-T. In the pain center, investigators use the MacCAT-T but investigators have not yet systematically measured the benefit and the cost of using this questionnaire in everyday practice. In particular, investigators want to know if the skill is not overestimated by the doctor in charge of the patient.

This study aims to evaluate the influence of genetic polymorphisms of OCTN1 and OCT2 and other possible covariates on the kinetic disposition of GAB in patients undergoing GAB chronic treatment. Thus, patients treated with GAB, for at least one week, are being investigated.