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Register: Netherlands Trial Register
Last refreshed on: 27 May 2013
Main ID:  NTR842
Date of registration: 14/12/2006
Primary sponsor: Medisch Spectrum Twente
Public title: An open prospective randomized long-term effectiveness study, comparing best medical practice with or without adjunctive spinal cord stimulation in patients with chronic diabetic neuropathic pain. (SCS 001)
Scientific title: An open prospective randomized long-term effectiveness study, comparing best medical practice with or without adjunctive spinal cord stimulation in patients with chronic diabetic neuropathic pain. (SCS 001) - SCS 001
Date of first enrolment: 1/8/2006
Target sample size: 45
Recruitment status: recruiting
URL:  http://www.trialregister.nl/trialreg/admin/rctview.asp?TC=842
Study type:  intervention
Study design:  Randomised: Yes; Masking: None; Control: Active; Group: Factorial; Type: -  
Countries of recruitment
The Netherlands
Contacts
Name: C.C.  Vos, de
Address:  Medisch Spectrum Twente, Department of Neurosurgery, P.O. Box 50000 7500 KA Enschede The Netherlands
Telephone: +31 (0)53 4873532
Email: c.devos@ziekenhuis-mst.nl
Affiliation: 
Name: C.C.  Vos, de
Address:  Medisch Spectrum Twente, Department of Neurosurgery, P.O. Box 50000 7500 KA Enschede The Netherlands
Telephone: +31 (0)53 4873532
Email: c.devos@ziekenhuis-mst.nl
Affiliation: 
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: 1. Chronic, diabetic, peripheral neuropathic pain that exists for more than one year;
2. Patient cannot be treated further otherwise according to patients? medical specialist;
3. The pain-sensation on a VAS-scale is minimal 5 (recording both for day and night time).

Exclusion criteria: 1. Age < 18 years;
2. Psychological problems;
3. Neuropathic pain in upper extremities.


Age minimum:
Age maximum:
Gender:
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Diabetic neuropathy

Intervention(s)
After a baseline period patients will be randomized to either the best medical practice with adjunctive SCS therapy arm or the best emdical practice without adjunctive SCS therapy arm. The control group will be followed simultanously with the SCS-treatment group.
Primary Outcome(s)
VAS score.
Measured at baseline and 1, 3, 6,
9 and 12 months after inclusion.
Secondary Outcome(s)
1. Response rates (greater than or equal to 50% reduction in pain intensity) at all visits;
2. Percent of patients that are pain free (>75% reduction in pain intensity) at all visits;
3. Mean and median percent change in pain intensity at all visits;
4. Pain free time during day and night.
5. McGill Pain Questionnaire;
6. Short Form 36;
7. Changes in pain medication;
8. Compliance rates.
9. Emergent adverse events;
10. Device complications;
11. Premature study withdrawal.
Measured at baseline and 1, 3, 6,
9 and 12 months after inclusion.
Secondary ID(s)
001
ISRCTN03269533
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Medisch Spectrum Twente, Enschede, Stichting TWIN
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Twente Institute for Neuromodulation (TWIN), Medisch Spectrum Twente
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