NEPAL (Neuromodulatory Examination of Pain and Mobility Across the Lifespan)

CompletedOBSERVATIONAL
Enrollment

105

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

July 31, 2015

Primary Completion Date

February 4, 2024

Study Completion Date

February 4, 2024

Conditions
Musculoskeletal PainPain, Chronic
Interventions
OTHER

MRI Neuroimaging

MRI scans utilized to measure the structural and functional integrity of the brain.

OTHER

Quantitative Sensory Testing

Vibratory Detection Thresholds; Tactile Detection Thresholds; Thermal Detection Thresholds, Pain Thresholds, and Temporal Summation; Allodynia and Temporal Summation; Punctate Pain Testing and Temporal Summation; and Pressure Pain Thresholds.

OTHER

Questionnaires

The Modified Mini-Mental State Examination (3MS), the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA), the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D), the Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS), the Edinburg Handedness Inventory, the Ten-Item Personality Inventory (TIPI), the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), the state and trait versions of the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI), the state and trait versions of the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS), pain questionnaires (the Graded Chronic Pain Scale (GCPS), the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Osteoarthritis Index (WOMAC), Pain-Detect, the short-form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ-2), and the Coping Strategies Questionnaire-Revised (CSQ-R)), a standardized paper and pencil cognitive battery (Hopkins Verbal Learning Test (HVLT), Trail Making A\&B, Boston Naming Test, Controlled Oral Word Association Test (COWAT), Stroop Interference Test, Ruff Figural Fluency Test, and Raven's Progressive Matrices Test).

OTHER

Physical and Cognitive Function Testing

Upper Limb Isometric Strength, Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB), GAITRite Instrumented Walking, Galvanic Skin Response, Knee Extension Isokinetic Strength, the Pepper Assessment Tool for Disability (PAT-D), and an electronic NIH Toolbox Cognitive Battery.

Trial Locations (4)

32607

UF & Shands Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine Institute, Gainesville

32608

UF Health Science Center, Gainesville

32611

Clinical Translational Research Building, Gainesville

McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida, Gainesville

All Listed Sponsors
collaborator

National Institute on Aging (NIA)

NIH

collaborator

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

NIH

lead

University of Florida

OTHER

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