Controlled Study of Farabloc for Chronic Phantom Limb Pain Among Veteran Amputees
CompletedNot applicableNCT00797849
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
The primary purpose of this study is to determine if the group using Farabloc shows a greater reduction in pain levels than the group not using Farabloc at 6-week, 12-week and 1-month post treatment follow-ups.
Study details
- Official title
- A Randomized, Controlled Study to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Farabloc for Chronic Phantom Limb Pain Among Veteran Amputees
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Device: Farabloc Limb Cover
- Device: Sham Limb Cover
- Sponsor
- Southern California Institute for Research and Education
- Collaborators
- Samueli Institute for Information Biology
- Start date
- 2008-11
- Primary completion
- 2011-11
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Upper or lower extremity amputees with healed stumps * Experience episodes or intermittent PLP * At least 3 episodes of PLP during the previous 6 weeks * Have not used Farabloc within the last 6 months Exclusion Criteria: * Pregnant women are excluded from the study * Stump complications (e.g., cellulites and stump pain caused by new bone spur within the past 12 months * Previous use of Farabloc within 6 months
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00797849