Electrical Nerve Block for Amputation Pain



Status:Recruiting
Conditions:Psychiatric
Therapuetic Areas:Psychiatry / Psychology
Healthy:No
Age Range:21 - Any
Updated:6/3/2018
Start Date:October 9, 2014
End Date:September 2025
Contact:Barbara S Lindsay
Email:blindsay@neurosmedical.com

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High-Frequency Nerve Block for Post-Amputation Pain: A Pivotal Study

The purpose of the clinical trial is to learn whether electrical nerve block via the Altius
System is a safe and effective treatment for patients with post-amputation pain.

The Altius System is an implanted device designed to electrically block nerve signals and
alleviate pain. Use of this device may be associated with providing an effective,
mechanism-based yet non-destructive, treatment for managing intractable limb pain in
amputees. In a given patient, the Altius System will be deemed effective if treatment results
in 50% reduction of pain score for more than 50% of all pain episodes.

Key Inclusion Criteria:

- Age ≥ 21 years old

- Unilateral amputated leg ≥ 12 months

- Chronic post amputation pain ≥ 6 months

- Pain episodes typically lasting ≥ 60 minutes

- Stable drug regimen ≥ 6 weeks

- No changes to medications or prosthesis for 3-month primary study period

Key Exclusion Criteria:

- Implanted with an active implantable medical device (i.e. pacemaker)

- Confounding source of pain that interferes with reporting of limb pain

- Uncontrolled diabetes

- Spasticity preventing full range of motion of involved side

- Extremely short stump; sits on end

- Untreated psychological condition (i.e. borderline personality)

- Condition requiring MRI studies or diathermy after device implant

- Life expectance of less than 24 months

- Progressive neurological disease (i.e. multiple sclerosis)
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