Paired pulse behavior of somatosensory evoked potentials in chronic low back pain and healthy controls - a cross-sectional study
- Conditions
- M54.5Low back pain
- Registration Number
- DRKS00033184
- Lead Sponsor
- Hochschule für Gesundheit Bochum
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Complete
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 46
Sufficient cognitive and German language abilities are required to give written informed consent and to follow instructions. Healthy controls are included if they have no current pain, not experienced LBP in the past 2 years and no history of spine surgery. Participants are included if the primary pain is located in the area between the 12th rib and the gluteal folds, persists longer than 3 months and is classified as nonspecific. If radiating pain in the leg is higher than pain in the back, people are excluded from this study even if the painDETECT score is lower than 12.
To exclude people with a neuropathic pain component, people with a painDETECT score higher than 12 are excluded from this study. Moreover participants who are diagnosed with any neurological, psychiatric or other chronic disease, that could impact the function of the somatosensory system (e.g. multiple sclerosis, ADHD, diabetes mellitus, polyneuropathy) are excluded from this study. Moreover people with cardiac pacemakers, metal implants in the arms, hands or trunk and pregnant people are excluded from this study.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- observational
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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