NCT04528160

Pain Neuroscience Education for Older Adults

Pain Neuroscience Education for Older Adults With Pain From Primary Care: a Feasibility Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 24 (actual)
• Sponsor: Aveiro University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This study aims to investigate the feasibility of using pain neuroscience education for older adults with chronic pain from primary care services. It will have a group of participants receiving pain neuroscience education and exercise and a group receiving usual care.

Conditions

• Chronic Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Pain neuroscience education and exercise	PNE will be conducted in line with international guidelines and will cover the neurophysiology of pain, transition from acute to chronic pain and the nervous system ability to modulate the pain experience. Exercise will included genera exercise delivered at moderate intensity.
OTHER	Usual Care	Usual care delivered at primary care for older adults with pain.

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-04-01
• Primary completion: 2020-10-01
• Completion: 2020-10-01
• First posted: 2020-08-27
• Last updated: 2022-07-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Portugal