Brain imaging trial for chronic pai
Not Applicable
Recruiting
- Conditions
- chronic pain
- Registration Number
- JPRN-UMIN000021607
- Lead Sponsor
- Fukushima Medical University Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 200
Inclusion Criteria
Not provided
Exclusion Criteria
1. History of spine surgery. 2. Evidence of vertebral fracture, tumor (original or metastasizing), inflammatory disease (pyogenic spondylitis, etc.). 3. Pain caused by traffic accident or trauma. 4. With dementia. 5. Severe or unstable neuropsychiatric disease. 6. Brain disease (infarction or encephalorrhagia, etc.) or spinal cord disease. 7. Inability to keep rest position due to pain. 8. Contraindication for MRI. (that is patient with implanted cardiac pacemakers, aneurysm clip, metal implant, pregnancy or claustrophobia.) 9. No consent for present trial
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Quantity of brain metabolite obtained by magnetic resonance spectroscopy
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Brain volume changes obtained by voxel based morphometry, brain activity analysis using functional MRI