Correlation Between Central Sensitization Inventory and Posturographic Data

Caps Research Network

Status

Completed

Conditions

Central Nervous System Sensitization

Treatments

Other: Central Sensitization Inventory

Diagnostic Test: Posturography Evaluation

Study type

Observational

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT03058003

CI-IRB-20170124001

Details and patient eligibility

About

To investigate the use of balance as a screening tool for Central Sensitization, a condition of the nervous system that is associated with the development and maintenance of chronic pain. This is done by comparing the scores of a gold standard screening tool (the Central Sensitization Inventory) with balance data.

Full description

First, subjects will be asked to answer a brief medical questionnaire pertaining their general health status: since some of the subjects will be self-assessed to be "healthy" (no medical examination will be conducted to determine if this is indeed the case), the questionnaire will be used to determine if there are any possible known causes of poor balance performance. The questionnaire will not constitute an inclusion/exclusion criterion, it just has a classification purpose.

Subjects will then be asked to fill in the Central Sensitization Inventory (CSI), scoring each of the 25 items on a scale from 0 (never) to 4 (always).

Then, subjects will stand for 2 minutes on a compliant surface (a 4" tall foam cushion of known mechanical properties) to "learn" how to stand on it. Afterward, they will undergo posturography testing using the extended modified Clinical Testing of Sensory Integration in Balance (ext_mCTSIB) protocol: the subjects will be required to stand on a hard or compliant surface in a comfortable posture, feet shoulder width, with eyes open or closed, arms to the side and free to move, gazing forward, and breathing normally, with head straight, turned right or left, flexed or extended.

Enrollment

180 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 65 years old

Volunteers

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Adults, self assessed to be in good health, or medically diagnosed with any of the following pathologies: Chronic nonspecific low back pain (CNSLBP), Fibromyalgia (FM), Cervicogenic Headche (CH), Chronic Tension Type Headache (CTT), Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), Whiplash Associated Disorder (WAD), Temporomandibular Disorder (TMD)

Exclusion criteria