Spinal Cord Evoked Potentials as a Tool to Investigate Sensorimotor Processing (SCEPTISM)

Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Studying Spinal Cord Evoked Potentials in Patients With Intractable Pain.

Treatments: Behavioral: Recording spinal cord evoked potentials

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01208805

S52573

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study first aim is to investigate the relationship between different patterns of electrode stimulation and peripheral sensory stimulation and spinal cord-evoked potentials to optimize spinal cord stimulation parameters . The second aim of the study is to investigate the role of the spinal cord in some aspects of cognitive-sensory-motor processing, specifically the presence of top-down attentional effects on the sensory analysis of an external stimulus at the spinal cord level.

The study will be performed on patients that will be implanted with a spinal epidural electrode because of chronic intractable pain. From these electrodes, spinal cord evoked potentials (SCEPs) will be recorded.

Enrollment: 10 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age: 18 - 70
• Candidates for spinal cord stimulation
• Epidural electrode at the the level of the cervical or thoracic spine.

Exclusion criteria

• Generalized sensory deficit interfering with the recording of spinal cord evoked potentials

Trial design

10 participants in 1 patient group

Candidates for dorsal column stimulation

Treatment:

Behavioral: Recording spinal cord evoked potentials