Eligibility Module

Eligibility Module

The Eligibility Module contains detailed information about who can participate in the clinical trial. This includes eligibility criteria, age restrictions, gender requirements, healthy volunteer status, and study population descriptions, helping researchers understand who is eligible to participate in the study.

Eligibility Module path is as follows:

Study -> Protocol Section -> Eligibility Module

Eligibility Module


Ignite Creation Date: 2025-12-24 @ 5:49 PM
Ignite Modification Date: 2025-12-24 @ 5:49 PM
NCT ID: NCT02488668
Eligibility Criteria: Inclusion Criteria: * Amputation of one or both arms below the shoulder level or amputation of one or both legs below hip joint * Total or partial peripheral nerve injury (i.e.,under spinal cord level) causing paralysis of the arms or legs * Other treatments for phantom limb pain should have been tried with poor results * The subject should experience phantom limb pain at a level of 6 or higher measured on on a visual analog scale (VAS) ranging from 0-10 * Phantom limb pain should be experienced at least once a week * The subject should be in a chronic and stable phase, and the stump should have healed * The subject should otherwise be healthy and able to carry out the experiment * If pain medication is used it will be acceptable that the person continues to use the medication * It should, through peripheral electrical stimulation, be possible to apply the relevant phantom emotions to the subject Exclusion Criteria: * Cognitive impairment * Pregnancy * Prior or current psychological diseases such as borderline, schizophrenia, depression or manic-depressive * Acquired brain injury with residual impairment * Prior neurological or musculoskeletal diseases * History of or active substance abuse disorder * Persons with that experience an allergic reaction to surface electrodes * Persons with fear for electrical stimulation or pain * Persons that are hypersensitive to electrical stimulation and experience the stimulation as unpleasant * Persons that feel may claustrophobic in an MRI scanner * Persons that have metal parts in the body (such as pacemakers or metal screws)
Healthy Volunteers: False
Sex: ALL
Minimum Age: 18 Years
Study: NCT02488668
Study Brief:
Protocol Section: NCT02488668