The Use of Virtual Reality for Lumbar Pain Management in an Outpatient Spine Clinic
CompletedNot applicableNCT03819907
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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 management of chronic pain is a significant public health issue related to escalating treatment costs, lost productivity, disability and medication use. The prevalence of chronic pain is rising alarmingly across all subpopulations with chronic low back pain (LBP) being labeled as one of the 15 most expensive medical conditions. Both study investigators are involved in the medical treatment of these patients. The investigators are interested in testing the effectiveness of alternative treatment strategies that address the complexity of chronic pain that is often mediated not only by physiologic variables, but also psychosocial issues. There is emerging evidence that Virtual Reality (VR) may be an effective pain management tool to augment care in this population, reducing medical costs, decreasing medication use, improving outcomes and empowering patients to take more control over their own health and management of chronic pain. Less is known about the use of this technology delivered in the context of care delivered in an outpatient clinical setting.
Study details
- Official title
- The Use of Virtual Reality for Lumbar Pain Management in an Outpatient Spine Clinic: An Exploratory Comparative Randomized Trial
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Combination product: Audiovisual Guided Relaxation
- Combination product: Virtual Reality Guided Relaxation
- Sponsor
- Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
- Start date
- 2019-04-08
- Primary completion
- 2019-07-09
- 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: 1. Patients attending an appointment to receive a lumbar spinal injection. 2. Patients meeting the definition of chronic LBP as established by the NIH task force: Back pain problem that has persisted at least 3 months, and has resulted in pain on at least half the days in the past 6 months Exclusion Criteria: 1. Age younger than 18 years 2. Not being fluent and literate in English 3. Patients receiving injections in areas other than the lumbar or pelvic region
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03819907