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Virtual Reality and Pain Perception During Exercises for Patients With Chronic Non-specific Low Back Pain

NCT02679300 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 84

Last updated 2020-06-22

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Immersion in a virtual reality environment has been shown to reduce pain during a variety of painful medical procedures, such as wound care for burn patients and dental care. Often, serious games are used to distract patients from this painful procedures. Recently, serious games have also been developed for patients with low back pain. Because patients with low back pain frequently experience pain during exercises, the investigators hypothesize that exercising with serious games can reduce the pain intensity and the time spent thinking of pain during exercises. To test this hypothesis, the investigators will conduct a randomized controlled trial where two groups will be compared: the experimental group will perform one session of exercises with serious games, while the control group will perform one session of the same exercises without the serious games.

Conditions

  • Chronic Low Back Pain

Interventions

OTHER

Virtual reality exercise group

OTHER

Conventional exercise group (control group)

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Jessa Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Hasselt University

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-01-31
Primary Completion
2018-09-30
Completion
2018-09-30

Countries

  • Belgium

Study Locations

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