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Filter by:The objective of this within-subject study is to test the effects of Episodic Future Thinking (EFT) and Low-intensity Focused Ultrasound (LIFU) interventions on the pain of subjects who have chronic pain and alcohol use disorder(s).
The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility of administering auricular acupressure for patients with interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS), and evaluating the efficacy of auricular acupressure to reduce pain scores and decrease pain medication usage over time.
In this study, it was aimed to investigate the effect of pain management education in individuals with knee osteoarthritis with chronic pain.
The aim of this study will be to compare the effects of morphine versus dexmedetomidine when used as adjuvants to local anesthetic (Ropivacaine) in Erector Spinae Plane Block under ultrasound guidance. A group without an adjuvant will also be compared to the groups.
The study will provide important information regarding the biometric changes that occur in behavioral treatments for chronic pain and explore the additional impact of integrated movement and supervised exercise. The goal of this clinical trial is to determine if pain rehabilitation programs have impacts on physical function in patient reported outcomes and objective measures of physical activity or sedentary time with a wearable Fitbit. Additionally, we will examine the associations between movement, pain acceptance, and related health factors, such as pain severity, sleep, functional status, depression, and anxiety. The addition of biometric data will allow for further investigation of the association between objective measures and patient self-report measures.
This study aims to identify spatiotemporal alterations in thalamocortical circuitry functioning in both healthy subjects and patients with chronic pain, combining multimodal neuroimaging.
There is a lack of effective analgesic treatments to help walking patients with painful hip/knee osteoarthritis. Our team therefore imagined a new strategy lying on a multimodal rehabilitation walking program with the help of a transient intake of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). NSAIDs are indeed known to act specifically on pain at movement, but their continuous intake would induce unacceptable side effects. To optimize the benefit/risk balance, the molecule to be chosen must fit to the patient's profile, and its intake should cover only the period of interest, i.e. planned walks. Our multimodal rehabilitation program will also include physical techniques such as appropriate footwear, a patient's education aiming at reducing fear/avoidance and spotting side effects of NSAIDs, and a prescription frame to avoid any overdosing. This clinical study is a single-center, non-randomized, open label, one-arm trial, using drugs prescribed according to their label (i.e. osteoarthritis pain), pending a reinforced monitoring of side effects. The primary endpoint is to evaluate efficacy and tolerance of a tailored and transient administration of NSAID within a rehabilitation walking program in patients with painful hip/knee osteoarthritis. Secondary endpoints are to evaluate the adherence to the program and the factors influencing adherence; to identify the less well tolerated conditions of treatment (one condition being one molecule for one patient profile); to identify the factors of success among a set of baseline demographic, morphometric and psychometric variables; and to study the role of central sensitization (assessed by temporal summation) on the efficacy of treatment.
Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) is a medical device inserted beside the spine to treat nerve pain. When the device becomes infected (which happens 4 % of the time) it needs to be taken out and put back in again at a later date. So far we are unsure of how much this process costs. I am going to analyse data collected on a database of all devices taken out due to infection and calculate an average cost of taking them out, the intermediate care and putting them back in again in our hospital only. This will enable us to understand how much this process costs and if there are any methods of reducing the chance of infection in the future; we will be able to work out how much the NHS should pay for these products based on this data. This will be done in Guys and St Thomas's from a database in the chronic pain research department in patients who had their device taken out due to infection. It will take 6 months and will all be retrospective. Additional details may be collected from patients electronic records where needed. These will be collected by a member of the direct care team and pseudonymised prior to adding to the research data set.
This study is designed to evaluate the feasibility of using intra-operative ECAP and Late-Response (LR) recordings for confirmation of activating the neuronal target of the dorsal column in a single-stage SCS lead placement procedure. The collected ECAP and LR data will be analysed post-hoc to further evaluate its utility for determining the laterality of lead placement with respect to the physiologic midline of the dorsal column.
This is a prospective cohort study to estimate prevalence of chronic pain after cardiothoracic surgery