NCT01850875

Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) in Non-specific Chronic Back Pain

Localized and Generalized Musculoskeletal Pain: Psychobiological Mechanisms and Implications for Treatment (LOGIN) - Subgroups Characterized by Psychological Trauma, Mental Comorbidity, and Psychobiological Patterns and Their Specialized Treatment - Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) in Non-specific Chronic Back Pain

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (actual)
• Sponsor: University Hospital Heidelberg · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The study explores the feasibility of Eye-Movement-Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) in non-specific chronic back pain.

Detailed description

The study explores the feasibility of Eye-Movement-Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) in non-specific chronic back pain in a randomized controlled trial (RCT) with 6 months follow-up. The treatment consists of 12-sessions EMDR a 60 minutes using eye-movements for bilateral stimulation in addition to treatment as usual (TAU) that is compared to TAU alone.

Conditions

• Non-specific Chronic Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	Eye-Movement-Desensitization-Reprocessing

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-05-01
• Primary completion: 2014-11-01
• Completion: 2015-12-01
• First posted: 2013-05-10
• Last updated: 2016-05-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany