Brain Computer Interface and Virtual Reality (BCI-VR) for Pain Treatment

Last updated: April 20, 2022
Sponsor: Nantes University Hospital
Overall Status: Completed

Phase

N/A

Condition

Oral Facial Pain

Neuropathy

Pain

Treatment

N/A

Clinical Study ID

NCT03889353
RC17_0417
  • Ages 18-70
  • All Genders

Study Summary

Pilot Interventional study with minimal risks and constraints, prospective, monocentric. Safety and Efficacity evaluation of a Novel Medical Device.

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Neuropathic pain / Phantom limb pain
  • Mean pain score >3 centimeter
  • Permanent pain
  • If Plexus Brachial injury : > 6 month
  • If Amputation : at least at wrist level
  • Motor and Sensory deficit : complete or incomplete
  • Informed consent
  • Public Health Insurance

Exclusion

Exclusion Criteria:

  • MRI contraindication
  • Subject included in another interventional study
  • Pregnant women
  • Majors under guardianship or curatorship or safeguard of justice
  • History of associated head injury or any other neurological pathology altering thesensorimotor cerebral system or cognitive abilities and higher functions.
  • Presence of other lesions of the peripheral nervous system that may induce associatedneuropathic pain.
  • Head trauma associated altering somatosensory system or cognitive abilities and higherfunctions

Study Design

Total Participants: 7
Study Start date:
May 09, 2019
Estimated Completion Date:
November 09, 2021

Study Description

Upper limb's phantom pain, due to amputation or to injury of the brachial plexus are possibly due to maladaptive CNS (central nervous system facility) plasticity and thus could be decreased by retraining the sensorimotor cortex using Mental Motor Imaging guided through a novel BCI-RV feedback system : "Ghost". The aim of this study is to evaluate safety and efficacy of this BCI pain treatment developed by our team.

Connect with a study center

  • Nantes Uh

    Nantes,
    France

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