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Central Sensitization in Patients Seeking Outpatient Physical Therapy Services

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University of Kansas

Status

Not yet enrolling

Conditions

Neck Pain
Knee Osteoarthritis
Low Back Pain

Treatments

Other: Standard Physical Therapy care

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT05467592
STUDY00148639

Details and patient eligibility

About

This is an observational study to examine presence of CS in patients with knee osteoarthritis (OA), chronic LBP (CLBP), and chronic neck pain (CNP) seeking outpatient physical therapy (PT) services. The study will also examine if outcomes differ between patients with CS and patients without CS symptoms with standard PT interventions.

Full description

Central Sensitization (CS), defined as augmented pain processing, is common in subgroup of nearly all chronic pain conditions, including fibromyalgia, CLBP, OA, and chronic tension headache. However, current studies of CS are primarily limited to research settings, lacking the knowledge about prevalence of CS and rehabilitation outcomes in usual clinical care.

Practicing clinicians do not routinely assess for CS symptoms. Without proper screening for CS, and lack of knowledge of varying levels of nervous system involvement contributing to pain, clinicians are unable to fully identify the depth of the mechanisms and therefore unable to fully determine the best treatment strategies. This observational study addresses this gap in knowledge by screening patients for CS symptoms.

Enrollment

100 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18+ years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Diagnosis of knee, neck, or back pain
  • Chronic pain as defined pain > 3 months
  • Able to read and understand English

Exclusion criteria

  • Pregnancy
  • Pain less than 3 months

Trial contacts and locations

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Central trial contact

Taylor A Rees, DPT; Neena Sharma, PT, PHD

Data sourced from clinicaltrials.gov

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