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Psychological Intervention and Physiotherapy With Medication Improves CRPS Patients Outcome

NCT02467556 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE4 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 10

Last updated 2020-03-24

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Summary

A ten week open label study intervention to evaluate the outcome for a psychological intervention combined with physiotherapy and medication with memantine-morphine in 10 CRPS patients.

Conditions

  • CRPS

Interventions

DRUG

Morphine, memantine

Morphine up to 30 mg per day orally and memantine up to 40 mg per day orally if tolerated for 10 weeks.

BEHAVIORAL

Psychological intervention

To help patients shift perspective from pain and CRPS-symptoms, to increase body awareness, to create vivid imagenary, to increase the use of a CRPS hand with mindfulness exposure exercises, to increase flexibility in behavioral repertoire, to explore the fusion of emotions, automatic cognitions and learned responses and to help patients to integrate new skills in their lives.

OTHER

Physiotherapy intervention

Graded motor imagenary with group and individual weekly sessions with daily practices at home.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Helsinki University Central Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Eija Kalso, MD, PhD · Professor

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
FEMALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-03-31
Primary Completion
2014-05-31
Completion
2014-06-30

Countries

  • Finland

Study Locations

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