Virtual Reality Guided Imagery for Chronic Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT04849897
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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)
To assess treatment with an at-home Virtual Reality Guided Imagery (VR-GI) intervention, 36 patients with chronic pain (18 with chronic back pain, CBP, and 18 with complex regional pain syndrome, CRPS) will complete a 2-week intervention with at-home daily practice of VR-GI (n = 24) or audio-only GI (n = 12). Pre-post treatment measures of pain intensity, opioid use, functional outcomes, and mood will be collected. Intervention feasibility and patient satisfaction will be evaluated post-treatment via questionnaire and qualitative interview.
Study details
- Official title
- Virtual Reality Guided Imagery for Chronic Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Device: Experimental: Virtual Reality Guided Imagery
- Other: Active Comparator: Audio Only Guided Imagery
- Sponsor
- University of Southern California
- Collaborators
- Limbix Health, Inc.; BehaVR LLC
- Start date
- 2021-03-22
- Primary completion
- 2022-04-30
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- Yes, on ClinicalTrials.gov
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Must be a patient at the University of Southern California Pain Center * \- English Fluency * Diagnosis of chronic back pain or complex regional pain syndrome * Average pain intensity of 5 on a 0 to 10 scale for more than 3 month * Access to a device with video and audio capability and sufficient WiFI to participate in on-line sessions Exclusion Criteria: * History of significant motion sickness * Active nausea/vomiting * Epilepsy * Significant movement problems * Significant vision or hearing impairment
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04849897