Effects of Multimodal Pain Therapy in Patients With Mixed Chronic Pain Syndromes (IMPERApain)

Klinikum St. Georg gGmbH

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Pain

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01346202

EK-BR-28/10-1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Complex and chronified pain syndromes requires a specialized therapeutic concept. From patients with chronic low back pain the investigators know, that an interdisciplinary multi-modal approach may improve the therapeutic success. In this observational study the investigators investigated if the multi-modal pain therapy is also effective in patients with mixed chronic pain syndromes.

Full description

The multi-modal pain therapy includes:

• specific drug therapy
• pain education
• psychological therapy
• physical therapy
• behavioral therapy
• work hardening
• bio-feedback
• ergotherapy

Enrollment: 260 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• age >= 18 years and <= 65 years
• verified chronic pain for more than 6 month

Exclusion criteria

• application for a pension
• non-accordance with multi-modal pain therapy
• dominant geriatric symptoms
• dominant psychiatric symptoms

Trial design

260 participants in 1 patient group

chronic pain

Description:

260 consecutive patients with verified chronic pain syndromes