Locating Nociceptive Stimuli on Digital Body Chart
CompletedNot applicableNCT03463109
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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)
Digital body charts are used to assess the pain experience in people with pain. People are asked to report their pain by shading a human body template on a digital tablet. The aim of this study is to investigate whether people with chronic low back pain, compared to healthy volunteers, consistently locate on a digital body chart all nociceptive stimuli induced in the lumbar region.
Study details
- Official title
- Locating Nociceptive Stimuli Applied to the Lumbar Region in Healthy Subjects and in Subjects With Chronic Low Back Pain
- Conditions
- Low Back Pain
- Healthy Volunteers
- Interventions
- Other: Electrocutaneous stimulation
- Other: Assessment + Electrocutaneous stimulation
- Sponsor
- IRCCS San Raffaele
- Start date
- 2018-04-27
- Primary completion
- 2020-01-31
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 70 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Italy
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Chronic low back pain (duration more than three months) Exclusion Criteria: * denial of informed consent; * presence of pacemaker; * pregnancy or possible pregnancy status; * lumbar surgery (spinal fusion); * documented degenerative pathology of the central nervous system; * documented concomitant pathology altering sensitivity (e.g. diabetes, fibromyalgia); * reduced motor control of the dominant hand (reported by every subject as conditioning the writing and therefore the ability to compile the body chart); * presence of skin moles and/or scars on the back that may interfere with the conduction of the electrical stimulus.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03463109