Studying Spinal Cord Evoked Potentials in Patients With Intractable Pain.
Conditions
Brief summary
The study first aim is to investigate the relationship between different patterns of electrode stimulation and peripheral sensory stimulation and spinal cord-evoked potentials to optimize spinal cord stimulation parameters . The second aim of the study is to investigate the role of the spinal cord in some aspects of cognitive-sensory-motor processing, specifically the presence of top-down attentional effects on the sensory analysis of an external stimulus at the spinal cord level. The study will be performed on patients that will be implanted with a spinal epidural electrode because of chronic intractable pain. From these electrodes, spinal cord evoked potentials (SCEPs) will be recorded.
Interventions
BEHAVIORALRecording spinal cord evoked potentials
Recording spinal cord evoked potentials from patients suffering from intractable pain in whom epidural electrodes have already been implanted
Sponsors
Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven
Study design
Observational model
COHORT
Time perspective
PROSPECTIVE
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
18 Years to 70 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
* Age: 18 - 70 * Candidates for spinal cord stimulation * Epidural electrode at the the level of the cervical or thoracic spine.
Exclusion criteria
* Generalized sensory deficit interfering with the recording of spinal cord evoked potentials
Countries
Belgium
Contacts
Primary ContactTom Theys, MD
Backup ContactBart Nuttin, MD PhD
Outcome results
None listed