Vestibular Pain Interactions

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Healthy
• Interventions: Procedure: Quantitative sensory testing; Procedure: CHEPS; Procedure: 3D Turntable; Procedure: Vection stimulation

• Registration Number: NCT02358954
• Lead Sponsor: University of Zurich

Brief Summary

The goal is to establish the practical usefulness of vestibular stimulation for modulating pain perception and to describe the possible mechanisms that could underlie neural vestibular-somatosensory interactions.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2015-01
• Study First Submitted: 2015-01-22
• Study First Submitted QC: 2015-02-03
• Study First Posted: 2015-02-09
• Primary Completion: 2015-06
• Study Completion: 2015-06
• Status Verified: 2015-07
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-07-11
• Last Update Posted: 2015-07-14

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Male
• Target Recruitment: 26

Inclusion Criteria

• Weight: 50 - 100 kg
• Height: 155 - 185 cm
• Male subjects 18 years to 60 years of age
• Sufficient command of German language
• Written informed consent by the participant after information about the project
• Without any known history of neurological disease (especially motor, somatosensory disorders, peripheral neuropathies).
• Right-handedness

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Exclusion Criteria

1. Intellectually or mental impaired subjects
2. Drug abuse
3. Chronic alcohol consumption
4. No use of marihuana 24h before measurements.
5. No history of vestibular or auditory disorders.
6. Diabetes mellitus
7. Participants of other studies during study period and 30 days prior to study begin
8. Any regular concomitant medication
9. Abnormal QST parameters at the baseline measurement.
10. Absent CHEPs-Potentials at the baseline measurement.

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Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: SINGLE_GROUP

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Vestibular Pain interactions	Vection stimulation	-
Vestibular Pain interactions	Quantitative sensory testing	-
Vestibular Pain interactions	CHEPS	-
Vestibular Pain interactions	3D Turntable	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Pain thresholds	After study inclusion, Day1	The change in heat or cold pain threshold after physical vestibular stimulation and vection stimulation

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

University hospital Zurich; 🇨🇭 Zurich, Switzerland