Imaging Study of Chronic Low Back Pain in Patients Taking Pain Medication

Completed · Not applicable · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Low Back Pain

In brief

Duloxetine has recently been shown to be effective in reducing the pain in chronic pain patients. Duloxetine is known to exert a central mechanism, however the precise human brain structures responsible for mediating its pain-relieving properties are not known. We will use functional magnetic resonance imaging (FMRI) to investigate the neural and functional correlates of pain.

Key facts

Study ID
NCT00388414
Run by
Stanford University
People needed
14
Starts
2006-09-01
Expected to finish
2010-01-01
Last updated by the study team
2017-12-11

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 60. Sex: male. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

Where it is running

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