University of Michigan / Wayne State Chronic Pain Study
| Status: | Active, not recruiting |
|---|---|
| Conditions: | Chronic Pain |
| Therapuetic Areas: | Musculoskeletal |
| Healthy: | No |
| Age Range: | 18 - Any |
| Updated: | 10/5/2018 |
| Start Date: | December 10, 2017 |
| End Date: | June 2019 |
Openness to Cognitive Approach of Nonspecific Chronic Pain
This study is designed to determine if a brief educational program can alter the attitudes
and knowledge of individuals with chronic back pain, which is likely to be non-structural in
nature.
Individuals will be randomly assigned to an experimental condition (performs written
educational and emotional awareness exercises) or a control condition (completes a general
health activities questionnaire). Comparisons will be made to assess the degree of
centralized pain features and functional improvements at 1-month follow-up. A 10-month
follow-up as a secondary endpoint is also planned.
and knowledge of individuals with chronic back pain, which is likely to be non-structural in
nature.
Individuals will be randomly assigned to an experimental condition (performs written
educational and emotional awareness exercises) or a control condition (completes a general
health activities questionnaire). Comparisons will be made to assess the degree of
centralized pain features and functional improvements at 1-month follow-up. A 10-month
follow-up as a secondary endpoint is also planned.
Inclusion Criteria:
- English-speaking adults ages 18 years or older with internet access who are referred
to the University of Michigan Health Service Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Spine Program identified the physician with chronic nonspecific back pain (longer than
3 months) or fibromyalgia. Degenerative changes seen on imaging are considered
nonspecific. Alternatively, enrolled in the University of Michigan Health Research
Volunteer Pool with a profile that includes chronic low back pain or fibromyalgia.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Any signs of a serious underlying condition (cancer, infection, cauda equine), spinal
stenosis or radiculopathy, or other specific spinal cause (vertebral compression
fracture or ankylosing spondylitis). Those patients who are being considered for an
interventional spine procedures or surgical consults would not be included in this
study.
- Individuals receiving or applying for compensation or disability, the inability to
provide written informed consent, severe physical impairment (e.g. blindness,
deafness), co-morbid medical condition limiting function (e.g. malignant cancer), the
use of illicit drug use, or a psychiatric condition that would limit judgment.
We found this trial at
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site
1500 East Medical Center Drive
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
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