Virtual Reality and Pain Perception During Exercises for Patients With Chronic Non-specific Low Back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT02679300
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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)
Immersion in a virtual reality environment has been shown to reduce pain during a variety of painful medical procedures, such as wound care for burn patients and dental care. Often, serious games are used to distract patients from this painful procedures. Recently, serious games have also been developed for patients with low back pain. Because patients with low back pain frequently experience pain during exercises, the investigators hypothesize that exercising with serious games can reduce the pain intensity and the time spent thinking of pain during exercises. To test this hypothesis, the investigators will conduct a randomized controlled trial where two groups will be compared: the experimental group will perform one session of exercises with serious games, while the control group will perform one session of the same exercises without the serious games.
Study details
- Official title
- The Influence of a Virtual Reality Environment on Pain Perception During Exercises for Patients With Chronic Non-specific Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Virtual reality exercise group
- Other: Conventional exercise group (control group)
- Sponsor
- Hasselt University
- Collaborators
- Jessa Hospital
- Start date
- 2016-01
- Primary completion
- 2018-09
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Belgium
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Chronic non-specific low back pain, with or without referred pain to the legs * Age 18-65 * Able to understand Dutch * A minimum pain intensity of 3/10 on the numeric pain rating scale at the time of the test * Being familiar with pelvic tilt exercises Exclusion Criteria: * Spinal surgery in the past * Pregnancy * Serious underlying pathologies (e.g. multiple sclerosis, tumors,…) * Signs or symptoms of nerve root involvement * Known skin-allergy for tape
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02679300