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Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) and Mirror Training for Phantom Limb Pain

NCT00731614 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 59

Last updated 2019-10-29

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Summary

The goal of this study is to test whether a combination of cognitive-behavior therapy and mirror training reduces phantom limb pain for veterans with amputations.

Conditions

  • Phantom Limb

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mirror Retraining

Cognitive Behavioral Pain Management treatment administered in 8 weeks of individual treatment, combined with training in use of a mirror device to reduce phantom limb pain.

BEHAVIORAL

Supportive therapy

Non-directive, emotion focused psychotherapy to facilitate coping with pain, delivered in weekly individual sessions.

BEHAVIORAL

Mirror retraining

Use of a mirror to produce an illusion of the missing limb. By attending to the reflected limb while moving the existing limb, the patient provides visual feedback that helps correct changes in the neural organization of the somatosensory cortex resulting from the amputation and contributing to the phantom limb pain

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • VA Office of Research and Development

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • John R. McQuaid, PhD MS BA · VA Medical Center, San Francisco

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-11-30
Primary Completion
2011-09-30
Completion
2012-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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