Clinical Assessment of Pain Processes in Pediatric Patients With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain
Unknown statusNCT04308044
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Brief summary (from the registry)
Musculoskeletal (MSK) pain is one of the most common types of pain among children and adolescents. Recurring episodes of MSK pain during childhood does not only impact physical and psychological aspects of daily life but may predispose children and adolescents to experience recurrent pain-related illnesses while in adulthood. Thus, effective early life pain management is critical in avoiding a cascade of ill adaptive behaviors. Close to 16,000 children are seen in the clinics of the Shriners Hospital for Children - Canada each year. In the clinic, questionnaires are the standardized clinical way to access the patient's history on pain experience and their perception of it. However, clinicians currently lack the tools to objectively examine pain processes. The ultimate goal of this project is to investigate pain assessment techniques that could be used to phenotype pediatric MSK pain by their endogenous central pain modulation efficacy to provide a more personalized approach to pain management.
Study details
- Official title
- Clinical Assessment of Pain Processes in Pediatric Patients With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain
- Conditions
- Sponsor
- Shriners Hospitals for Children
- Start date
- 2018-01-23
- Primary completion
- 2022-09
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 10 Years to 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Canada
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Aged between 10 and 18 years old * Report of MSK pain lasting 3 months or longer, including orthopaedic diagnoses such as those involving the spine, knees, hips, ankles, shoulders. * Ability to adequately understand and respond to outcome measures * Female or male * Any ethnic background Exclusion Criteria: * Inability of the child to speak English or French * Pain due to an acute trauma occurring in the last 3 months (e.g. fracture) * Diagnosed with developmental delay that would interfere with understanding questions being asked (autism, mental retardation) * Children with major chronic medical conditions (ASA status III or higher)
Canadian sites (1)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04308044