NCT05626582

Effects of Acute Pain vs Context Change on Motor Learning Retention in Young Adults

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 61 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Delaware · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

To date, the effects of pain on motor learning have not been thoroughly investigated. When examining potential effects on retention of motor learning, it is important to dissociate any effects of pain from effects of a context change. The purpose of this research is to determine whether any altered retention of motor learning associated with acute pain is a true affect of pain or an affect of context (or both).

Conditions

• Pain, Acute
• Motor Activity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	pain delivery - learning only	Experimental pain paradigm delivered (capsaicin cream combined with heat) that is short-term and painful but not harmful. Applied to skin just during the Day 1 learning period.
PROCEDURE	pain delivery - learning and retention	Experimental pain paradigm delivered (capsaicin cream combined with heat) that is short-term and painful but not harmful. Applied to skin during the Day 1 learning period and again during the Day 2 retention period.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-04-11
• Primary completion: 2024-05-15
• Completion: 2024-05-31
• First posted: 2022-11-23
• Last updated: 2024-07-12

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States