Virtual Walking to Reduce Chronic Neuropathic Pain in Subjects With SCI
RecruitingNot applicableNCT07165353
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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)
About 70% of people with a spinal cord injury in Switzerland have chronic pain that lasts more than 3 to 6 months. This pain can be caused by muscle or joint problems, or by nerve damage (neuropathic pain). Neuropathic pain is often hard to treat, and current treatments may cause side effects or not work well. This study will test whether virtual walking from different visual perspectives can reduce chronic neuropathic pain and improve quality of life after spinal cord injury. We will also compare which perspective works best. To better understand how the training works, we will use two tests-quantitative sensory testing (QST) and contact heat-evoked potentials (CHEPs)-to measure changes in the pain and nerve systems.
Study details
- Official title
- Virtual Walking With Habitual Feedback to Reduce Chronic Neuropathic Pain in Individuals With Spinal Cord Injury
- Conditions
- Spinal Cord Injuries (SCI)
- Neuropathic Pain Due to Spinal Cord Injury
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Virtual Walking
- Behavioral: Sham Virtual Walking
- Sponsor
- Swiss Paraplegic Research, Nottwil
- Start date
- 2026-01-20
- Primary completion
- 2027-11-30
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 75 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Switzerland
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Sufficient knowledge of German language to understand the instructions, assessments and to fill in questionnaires. * Age ≥ 18y, ≤ 75y * Chronic traumatic or non-traumatic SCI (\>6 month after SCI) with an SCI severity grade AIS A, B, C or D * At or below level spinal cord injury neuropathic pain on trunk or lower extremities diagnosed by a neurologist following the ISCIP classification (Bryce et al., 2012) of at least 4/10 intensity on a NRS (Langford et al., 2023) * Ability to draw with a pen Exclusion Criteria: * \- Serious psychiatric disorders, which are accompanied by imminent or current acute harm to oneself or others, or which require inpatient psychiatric treatment for other reasons, or other indications of a foreseeable, seriously harmful effect of participation in the study based on the clinical impression from the psychological screening interview * Participants with a walking ability more than 5 minutes without walking aids * Pregnancy (anamnestic) in women of child-bearing age (18-49 years) * Known epilepsy * neurological disorders (multiple sclerosis, ALS, Guillan-Barré Syndrome, congenital disorders, polyneuropathy)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT07165353