NCT02420457

Tracking Outcomes in Pain Patients Using Fitness Devices

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 36 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The investigators are assessing the validity of fitness devices as surrogate measures of chronic pain survey outcomes.

Detailed description

The investigators are attempting to validate the usage of personal fitness trackers against the classical survey tools used. These devices are known to be of use in measuring activity and sleep in healthy patients but their use in chronic pain patients has not been assessed. This study will follow participants with chronic back pain undergoing treatment to see if changes in clinical course can be captured with these fitness devices.

Conditions

• Chronic Pain
• Back Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Epidural injection	After evaluation by their pain physician, if the clinician offers an epidural injection for their back pain, they will be followed for this study before and after the injection.
DRUG	Epidural steroid injection as determined by routine care provider	Betamethasone Triamcinolone Dexamethasone Methylprednisolone Lidocaine Bupivacaine Ropivacaine Normal saline

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-03-01
• Primary completion: 2018-05-01
• Completion: 2018-05-01
• First posted: 2015-04-17
• Last updated: 2019-04-25

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States