3D Augmented Reality Mirror Visual Feedback Applied to the Treatment of Unilateral Upper Extremity Neuropathic Pain.

Free University of Brussels (ULB)

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 2

Phase 1

Conditions

Neuralgia

Treatments

Device: 3D augmented reality

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02582216

Kine-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study has two objectives. First, to introduce a new virtual reality method that incorporates the mechanisms used in mirror visual feedback through a three-dimensional (3D) augmented virtual reality system. Second, to evaluate the efficiency of this new method on a convenience sample of patients presenting with unresolved neuropathic pain (CRPS, PLP, plexopathy, stroke) who were not responding adequately to both pharmaceutical management and traditional mirror therapy.

Full description

Each patient receives 5 treatment periods over a total period of 1 week, where each treatment period lasts a total of 20 minutes.

Enrollment

22 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Neuropathic pain in the unilateral upper extremity scored by DN4 questionnaire
At least 3 months symptom duration following injury
Minimum pain of 40 on a visual analogue scale (VAS);
A drug treatment regimen that was stable for at least 2 weeks.
Subjects were allowed to participate if they presented with any of the following: (1) A CRPS diagnosis, in accordance with the International Association for the Study of Pain criteria, Phantom Limb Pain (PLP), or spinal cord injury or plexopathy; and (2) an history of being treated before by conventional mirror therapy but, in their case, the mirror therapy failed.

Exclusion criteria