Efficacy of Audio-Visual-Perception-Enhancement (AVWF®) Method in Chronic Pain Patients

Klinikum Klagenfurt am Wörthersee

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain; Stress

Treatments: Device: AVWF device

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03776019

AVWF 2019

Details and patient eligibility

About

It is anticipated that Audio-Visual-Perception-Enhancement (AVWF®) method leads to pain reduction and a decrease of inflammatory markers in chronic pain patients. Also an improvement of quality of life, self-perceived disability and depression in chronic pain patients is expected.

Enrollment: 57 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 99 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• chronic low back pain with a numeric rating scale of pain >= 4 for > 6 month
• patients >18 years

Exclusion criteria

• psychosis
• drug addiction
• pension process
• pregnant women
• epilepsy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

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57 participants in 2 patient groups

Modulated

Experimental group

Description:

modulated music

Treatment:

Device: AVWF device

Typical

Sham Comparator group

Description:

typical music

Treatment:

Device: AVWF device