Back Pain - Linking Phenotype to Pain Mechanism and Outcome.

Balgrist University Hospital

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Low Back Pain

Treatments: Other: no intervention, observational

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04433299

2019-00136

Details and patient eligibility

About

To investigate whether different clinical, psychophysical and neurophysiological phenotypes can be identified among low back pain patients

Full description

Low back pain patients will fill in a detailed questionnaire (incl. pain drawing) about their pain. Some of them will undergo a standardized quantitative sensory testing protocol and an fMRI procedure.

Enrollment: 150 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

-primary complaint: low back pain clinically not attributable to red flags

Exclusion criteria

• any major medical or psychiatric condition that affects pain sensitivity
• contraindications to MRI

Trial design

150 participants in 2 patient groups

low back pain patients

Description:

no intervention

Treatment:

Other: no intervention, observational

controls

Description:

no intervention

Treatment:

Other: no intervention, observational