Pain Evaluation and Treatment in Clinical Settings

Brief summary (from the registry)

This new research projet in pain is enrolled into an international official collaboration between researchers and clinicians from Irmandade da Santa Casa de Londrina (ISCAL) and those from two Quebec universities: University of Quebec in Chicoutimi (UQAC) and University of Quebec in Rimouski (UQAR). ISCAL as a living laboratory research environment (sites, equipment, technology) for researchers, clinicians, students, and patients pool will make this project unique in the world, especially to stablish an integral concept on pain from identification, assessment and management, using neurophysiological central measures across patients with neuromusculoskeletal disorders. ISCAL in partnership with Santa Hospital in Londrina admit so many patients per day suffering of pain, by supporting a specific size of sample for establishment of this integral concept in pain. This project builds on the foundations already well installed at ISCAL for data acquisition and storage, from an ideal set-up including patients with pain and clinicians. ISCAL infrastructure will be used to improve the acquirement of pain data from patients, using high-tech tools in a simple and robust experimental protocol targeting the central nervous system (CNS). Pain conventional evaluation (by questionnaires or simple questions related to pain intensity from anamneses or inspection doctor) will be completed by neurophysiological measures of the CNS activity based on the acquisition of biological signals and related to functional activities of the patients. A specific physiological behavior of pain will be determinate, using different types of preprocessing and statistical analyzes on biological signals. While pain and physical dysfunction mechanisms involve through the CNS, measurements from the CNS will allow to better understand the profiles and needs of the population (active adults and older people) suffering from pain and disabilities. The knowledge acquired throughout this research program will imp…

Study details

Official title

Innovations in Pain Assessment and Treatment for Individuals With Musculoskeletal Disorders: Brazil and Canada Collaboration

Conditions

• Chronic Pain
• Functional Limitations
• Musculoskeletal Disorders

Interventions

• Device: tDCS associated to functional activities
• Other: Conservative physiotherapy

Sponsor

Rubens da Silva

Collaborators

Londrina Santa casa Hospital

Organization

Université du Québec à Chicoutimi

Start date

2023-11-01

Primary completion

2024-12-31

Sex

All

Age range

from 20 Years to 85 Years

Results posted

No results posted in this snapshot

Countries

Brazil

Total sites listed

1

Eligibility criteria