Phantom Limb Pain Clinical Trial
— PLP-EVERESTOfficial title:
Pragmatic Trial of Remote tDCS and Somatosensory Training for Phantom Limb Pain With Machine Learning to Predict Treatment Response
The investigators have designed a pragmatic trial of home-based transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) for phantom limb pain (PLP), the PLP-EVEREST trial (PLP-EffectiVEness pRagmatic Stimulation Trial) to test a portable device that would reach underrepresented populations and would validate this therapy in a more pragmatic setting. Subjects will be randomized to home-based tDCS of the primary motor cortex (M1) with somatosensory training or usual care only (including their current pharmacological treatments, physical therapy, and occupational therapy). The investigators will therefore test the effectiveness of home-based tDCS and somatosensory training in a real-world, home-based setting. The Investigator will compare patients randomized to this combined strategy vs. usual care alone (subjects from this group will be offered combined treatment at the end of the trial). The investigators hypothesize that the combined strategy will be associated with a significantly larger Cohen's d effect size (at least 1) compared to the control group.
Status | Recruiting |
Enrollment | 290 |
Est. completion date | July 31, 2027 |
Est. primary completion date | June 30, 2027 |
Accepts healthy volunteers | No |
Gender | All |
Age group | 18 Years and older |
Eligibility | Inclusion Criteria: 1. Age - older than 18 years 2. Limb amputation 3. Patients who experience PLP regularly (at least once a week) 4. Pain not attributable to other causes, such as peripheral inflammation 5. Current chronic pain as defined by an average pain of at least 4 on the numeric rating scale (NRS, 0: no pain, 10: worst imaginable pain) Exclusion Criteria: 1. Any clinically significant or unstable medical or psychiatric disorder 2. History of substance abuse in the past 6 months (according to the DSM-V criteria for substance use disorder with six or more symptoms) 3. Uncompensated psychiatric disorder 4. Previous significant neurological history with current significant neurological deficits 5. Previous neurosurgical procedure with craniectomy that would affect current distribution of tDCS 6. Contraindications to tDCS (implanted brain medical devices) |
Country | Name | City | State |
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United States | Spaulding Hospital Cambridge | Cambridge | Massachusetts |
Lead Sponsor | Collaborator |
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Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital |
United States,
Type | Measure | Description | Time frame | Safety issue |
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Primary | Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) for Phantom Limb Pain | The VAS is a common assessment that asks subjects to self-reportedly measure their pain on a visual scale (i.e., unbearable to none). Investigators will use the VAS to determine subjects' pain scores. Subjects will rate their pain from 0 - indicating no pain at all, to 10 - indicating the worst pain felt. This scale is also colored, from green (at 0) to red (at 10), as a visual indicator of pain. This assessment tool is frequently used in many research studies evaluating pain levels in phantom limb. | From Baseline to Visit 22 (at 4 weeks) |
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