Mindfulness and Chronic Low Back Pain

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Chronic Low Back Pain

In brief

The purpose of this study is to see if mindfulness, a form of mental training, or listening to a book alters brain activation in response to raising your leg that may produce the feeling of pain. A technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) allows scientists to determine which parts of the brain are active during a particular task. This study will provide new information about how mindfulness affects the brain.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03354585

Run by

University of California, San Diego

People needed

120

Starts

2020-01-02

Expected to finish

2024-02-05

Last updated by the study team

2024-04-29

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 65. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may not qualify if…

• Participants must not be participating in any new (within 2 weeks prior or anytime after enrollment) pain management procedures during the study period.
• Participants must not have had back surgery within the last year before their enrollment into the study.
• Participants must not have had any other sensory or motor deficits that precludes participation in this study.
• Participants must not have known anomalies of the central nervous system including: stroke, dementia, aneurysm, a personal history of psychosis.
• Participants must not have metal implants including ferrous arterial stints or coils, spinal stimulators, pacemakers, or defibrillators, permanently implanted hearing aides, bullets, BBs, or pellets, retinal eye implants, infusion pump for insulin or other medicines, ferrous surgical clips, staples, metal sutures, orthopedic hardware above or including the shoulders, body piercings that cannot be removed.
• Participants must not be claustrophobic.
• Participants must not produce negative straight leg test (i.e. a test is considered positive when the person reports reproducible pain at 40 degrees of hip flexion or less).
• Participants must not be pregnant
• Participants must not be over 275 pounds

Where it is running

• UC San Diego — La Jolla, California, United States
• UC San Diego Center for Functional MRI — La Jolla, California, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

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