Clinical trial NCT04703348: The Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS) is a Chronic Pain Condition. This is a Preliminary Study to Explore and Test Clinical Hypothesis. They Suppose That CRPS Patients Have Impairment in Their Mental or Motor Imagery Abilities.
Official title: Pilot Study on the Assessment of Motor Imaging Skills in Patients With Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS)
Study type: INTERVENTIONAL
Overall status: COMPLETED
Phase: NA
Conditions: Complex Regional Pain Syndromes
Musculoskeletal Pain Disorder
Healthy
Keywords: complex regional pain syndromes
motor imagery
mental imagery
MIQ-RS
Pilot study
comparison groups
CRPS
Lead sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Nīmes
Sponsor class: OTHER
First posted: 2021-01-11
Enrollment: 129
Sex: ALL
Minimum age (years): 18
Standard ages: ADULT
OLDER_ADULT
Accepts healthy volunteers: yes
Allocation: NON_RANDOMIZED
Intervention model: PARALLEL
Intervention model description: 3 groups with different healthcare conditions are compared in motor imagery capacities
Primary purpose: SCREENING

Brief summary: Medical functional imagery seems to demonstrate that patients suffering from complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) have cortical modifications that alter their motor (or mental) imagery capacities. Nowadays, the use of motor imagery exercises are used in conventional rehabilitation treatments. But, in clinical practice, no study has verified if patients with CRPS desmonstrate problems in their motor imagery capacities. The MIQ-RS (Motor Imagery Questionnaire - Revised Second) is a valid, reliable and translated into French questionnaire to measure patients' capacities to do mental imagery. In this study, we compare 3 groups of 50 patients : healthy patients, patients with CRPS and patients with musculoskeletal disorder without CRPS. Every patient will take the MIQ-RS for the right and left body side. We hypothesis that patients with CRPS have more deficit than the 2 others to realise motor imagery.


Eligibility criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

* Patient with French healthcare affiliation
* Adult patient (\> 18 years old)
* Patient with bachelor degree minimum
* Patient practicing less than 150 minutes of moderate to intense physical activity per week

Specific Inclusion Criteria for CRPS group :

* Patient followed in the Evaluation and Treatment pain center (University Hospital of Nimes)
* Patient with secondary CRPS due to a traumatism or a surgery

Specific Inclusion Criteria for Musculoskeletal group :

* Patient with musculoskelettal disorder on a limb (upper or lower)
* Patient followed in the University Hospital of Nimes

Non inclusion Criteria :

* Patient who participates in another category 1 research
* Patient in a exclusion period in another study
* Patient under legal protection, under guardianship or under curatorship
* Patient for whom it is impossible to give clear information.
* Pregnant, parturient or breastfeeding patient.
* Patient with amputation on one of his limb
* Patient with visual cecity
* Patient who has already practiced mental imagery
* Patient with neurological impairment
* Patient with chronic low back pain and fibromyalgia

Specific non inclusion criteria for Musculoskeletal group and healthy group :

-Patient with CRPS

Specific non inclusion Criteria for CRPS group :

* Secondary CRPS to CVA (cerebrovascular accident)
* Patient receiving lymph node block treatment between the inclusion visit and the follow-up visit

Specific non inclusion Criteria for Musculoskeletal Disorder group :

* Patient with secondary musculoskeletal disorder to a CVA

Exclusion criteria :

* Questionnaire MIQ-RS not completed or non respect with the research protocol
* pathology discovered incompatible with the study criteria

Primary outcomes:
measure: Motor imagery capacities on the affected side for CRPS group and musculoskelettal disorder group.
timeFrame: Day 1
Secondary outcomes:
measure: Motor imagery capacities between affected side and unaffected side
timeFrame: Day 1
Other outcomes:
Locations:
city: Nimes
country: France
facility: CHU de Nimes
state: Gard
Study officials:
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