VIPER: Veterans Integrated Pain Evaluation Research
Completed
Conditions studied: Pain
In brief
The purpose of the study is to learn about the causes of different types of pain that can occur in people who have had an amputation. By gathering information through blood tests, photographs, a nerve test, and questionnaires, we hope to de-code how each individual's special characteristics affect the type and amount of pain they experience in their amputated limb.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT01715766
- Run by
- Defense and Veterans Center for Integrative Pain Management
- People needed
- 124
- Starts
- 2012-01-01
- Expected to finish
- 2017-02-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2019-08-14
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
You may qualify if…
- Male and female active duty military personnel age 18 years and older undergoing treatment at WRAMC and future WRNMMC with the diagnosis of post injury amputation of 1 limb, more than 3 but less than 18 months prior to enrollment. In particular, phantom limb pain patients will be included
You may not qualify if…
- Severe Traumatic Brain Injury (Primary major head trauma and diagnosis of traumatic brain injury resulting in documented, permanent or prolonged cognitive deficits that would preclude participation in the study (i.e. decreased intellectual capacity, marked memory deficits, or inability to communicate verbally or in writing)
- Significant cognitive deficits that would preclude participation in the study.
- Substantial hearing loss without alternative means of communication.
- Documented spinal cord injury with permanent or persistent deficits.
- Diagnosis of fibromyalgia or other chronic pain syndrome such as chronic headaches.
- Evidence of ongoing tissue damage pain, infection, bone spur, or poorly fitting prosthesis.
Where it is running
- Walter Reed National Military Medical Center — Bethesda, Maryland, United States
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