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Filter by:In CRPS, perturbation of body image and pseudo-neglect syndrome of the body part affected are frequently found. Pain and sensory perturbation seems to modify the way patients perceived their body part affected. Does a local body image perturbation can affect the balanced of the global self-awareness?
This study is testing the effectiveness of "dry needling" for pain management and on muscle strength and leg function for those with knee pain. Dry needling consists of small, monofilament needles that are administered directly into the tissue and manipulated to make the muscle relax for pain relief. This technique is used to treat dysfunctions in skeletal muscle and connective tissue to help diminish pain, reduce impairments of body structure and restore function.
This randomized controlled study aims to evaluate the efficacy of exposure-based Internet-delivered cognitive behavior therapy for children 8-12 years with Functional Abdominal Pain Disorders. The children participate along with their parents, who will also receive specific modules with information on how to support their children in the treatment. Predictors and mediators for treatment effects will be studied as well as the cost effectiveness of the intervention.
This study evaluates the effects of two doses of oral AQX-1125 on bladder pain and other urinary symptoms in subjects with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome. Participants will receive either 100 mg AQX-1125, 200 mg AQX-1125 or placebo for the first 12 weeks of the study. After 12 weeks, all participants will receive either 100 mg or 200 mg AQX-1125 for 52 weeks.
The aim of this study is to reveal neurobiological bases of the motor control of conscious perception, thanks to new techniques of functional cerebral imaging (MRI), and potentials deteriorations connected to neuropsychiatric disorders like conversion disorder. The Hospital University Center of Grenoble will provide patients from Neurology department, characterized with non psychogenic epileptic seizures and abnormal psychogenic movements, from conversive origin. Subjects will be scanned by Magnetic Resonance Imaging during a motor paradigm inducing a perceptive conflict between two informations : proprioceptive information coming from the action (drawing) and visual information (draw's mark) that appears on the screen when there is movement.
Introduction: Patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) is related to the previous sore knee, change functionality and postural control deficits. One of the possibilities for pain control and better positioning of the patella is the rigid bandage patellar widely used by clinicians and researchers. Objective: To evaluate the effect of rigid patellar bandage on postural control, pain and function in sedentary women with PFPS. Methods: The sample will be composed of 30 volunteers, sedentary, between 18 and 55 years; randomized group Bandage Functional Rigid (n = 15) and Banding Placebo (n = 15). All fill the Personal Data Sheet, Visual analog scale Pain Questionnaire Previous Knee Pain Scale; and will be submitted to analysis of postural control (static and dynamic) and carry out the test and sit up in pre conditions and post application of the bandage. Hypothesis: Expected to observe the effect of rigid patellar bandage in pain, function and postural control in sedentary women with PFPS.
Abdominal pain disorders functional (including functional dyspepsia, irritable bowel syndrome, abdominal migraine, functional abdominal pain) is a very common disease in the pediatric population, where classical medical treatment does not always prove effective. This clinical entity has an impact on the individual physiological balance particularly on the autonomic regulation. Studies concerning adults with irritable bowel syndrome, showed significant changes in heart rate variability indices (HRV: heart rate variability). The study of time and frequency domain analysis of HRV allows noninvasive and reproducible assessment of the cardiac sympathetic and parasympathetic tone. The investigators hypothesize that the sympathovagal balance could be altered in children in case of prolonged nociceptive stress as the investigators find it especially in irritable bowel syndrome and functional abdominal pain. In recent years, the control of pediatric pain experienced considerable growth through hypnosis techniques and several studies have shown analgesic efficacy with a beneficial effect in terms of quality of life in children. Our study aims to assess the impact of the hypno-analgesia treatment of Abdominal pain disorders functional on sympathovagal balance. The investigators propose to realize in 7 to 18 years old children with Abdominal pain disorders functional a single center prospective study to highlight after a standardized hypnosis program, changes in the time and frequency domain indices of heart rate variability and clinical or quality of life parameters. The primary endpoint will be the high frequency HF indice. Secondary endpoints will be the other indices of HRV (Ptot, VLF, LF, ratio LF / HF, SDNN, SDANN, pNN50, RMSSD), the Quality of Life Questionnaire values (PedsQL ™ 4.0) a pain scale and the composite score of Francis.
To date, there are no valid and reliable pressure pain threshold scales for use in research or clinical practice. The existing manual palpation protocols and scales have limited support in the literature and our knowledge has not advanced since these scales were proposed in the 1990's. Therefore, the purpose of this investigation was to develop a valid and reliable PPTS in order to provide an objective means of assessing pressure pain thresholds and create a reliable method of communication among clinicians for individuals with a diagnoses characterized by MPS and FM. These conditions were chosen based on their high prevalence among chronic pain conditions and are also dependent upon the manual palpation examination for their diagnosis.
"Brain signatures" as objective measures of acute pain have been characterized with functional magnetic resonance image and machine learning technology. As compared to acute pain, chronic pain leads to greater socioeconomic burden. However, measures for chronic pain remain subjective and suboptimal, and the brain signatures for chronic pain are largely unknown. Chronic migraine and fibromyalgia are two prototypes primary chronic pain disorders with high disability and intractability with prevalence of around 2% for both diseases. These two chronic pain disorders have shared clinical presentations (abnormal pain sensitivity, mood and sleep disorders), pathophysiology (central sensitization) and medical treatment (anti-depressants), despite different body parts are involved (head vs. whole body). The present integrated project aims to characterize both common and disease-specific brain signatures of chronic pain by investigating these two chronic pain disorders. Our findings may shed some light on the key mechanisms of pain chronification, and may pave the way for the optimization of diagnosis and prognostication, as well as formulation of personalized medicine in chronic pain, so as to improve life quality of these patients and to reduce socioeconomic loss. The present project includes three interdisciplinary sub-projects (plus one animal study, not listed here): A: Clinical studies for chronic migraine and fibromyalgia: endophenotypes and pain chronification B: Functional neuroimaging of chronic pain: multimodal quantitative analysis of brain connectomes C. Data stream mining technology for multimodal physiological signals of chronic pain: real-time tracking and clinical correlation The specific aims of the present projects include: 1. Identification of common and disease-specific brain signatures for chronic pain (sub-projects A, B, C) 2. Investigation of clinical indicators with predictive values by machine learning analysis of big data (sub-projects A, B, C) 3. Elucidation of the specific anatomical structures or neural networks underpinning pain chronification based on clinical neuroimaging (sub-projects A, B) In this 1st-year pilot study of the 4-year longitudinal study, we will establish experimental platforms for each sub-project, start to recruit participants and perform endophenotyping, as well as have a preliminary integration for sub-projects A, B and C.
Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome (PFPS), also known as the anterior knee pain, is one of the most common musculoskeletal disorders. Most of the patients suffer from knee pain for long time. The aim of this study was to investigate the short-term effects of Mobilization with movement and Kinesiotaping on pain, function and balance in patient with PFPS.