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60 Fibromyalgia Trials near Boston, MA

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MDMA-assisted Therapy for Fibromyalgia

Charlestown, Massachusetts
Fibromyalgia is a debilitating chronic pain disorder. Based on prior research with MDMA, it can be hypothesized MDMA-assisted therapy in fibromyalgia patients may increase the range of positive emotions, interpersonal trust, and heighten the state of empathic rapport that can lead to an enhanced patient-clinician interaction and to initiate reattribution processes targeting dysfunctional thoughts towards pain. Therapeutic alliance, i.e. a positive patient-clinician relationship, is already acknowledged as an essential component for MDMA-assisted therapy. Despite its importance, the patient-clinician interaction and the neuroscience supporting patient/clinician therapeutic alliance has received almost no attention in MDMA research. The investigators will examine the potential therapeutic benefit of MDMA-assisted therapy for fibromyalgia. Additionally, this study will also target secondary objectives including the investigation of the clinical and physiological response (i.e. brain-to-brain concordance) supporting enhanced patient-clinician therapeutic alliance in fibromyalgia patients. The study includes two Experimental Sessions of therapy with MDMA combined with neuroimaging, along integrative therapy, baseline neuroimaging, and a 3 month follow up.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Early Phase 1
Age:21 - 65

20 Participants Needed

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Fibromyalgia

Boston, Massachusetts
This study aims to explore the usefulness of self-regulation of brain activity in patients with fibromyalgia. Patients will use real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) neurofeedback to observe and regulate their own brain activity while applying mental strategies to reduce fibromyalgia pain. The study consists of 2 magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) visits that involve brain neuroimaging for fMRI neurofeedback tasks, as well as 8 weekly intervention sessions with a pain psychologist. Patients will be randomized to either Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) or Fibromyalgia Education groups.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased
Age:18 - 65

36 Participants Needed

Cognitive Training + Electroacupuncture for Fibromyalgia

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
This study will evaluate the impact of a novel non-pharmacological multimodal therapy, a type of approach known to improve pain outcomes and recommended by the Institute of Medicine report for chronic pain management. This study design will also allow the investigators to evaluate a neural model supporting therapeutic alliance for pain outcomes for fibromyalgia.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased
Age:18 - 65

100 Participants Needed

Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Fibromyalgia

Boston, Massachusetts
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a syndrome with clinical symptoms involving multiple systems. The efficacy of current treatments is inadequate, and more alternative modalities are needed for the management of FM patients. The parasympathetic vagus nerve innervates and integrates sensory, motor, and autonomic systems and has been suggested to play a role in pain modulation. The role of vagus nerve stimulation (VNS) as a treatment option for FM patients is yet to be investigated. The investigators propose to examine the hypothesis that vagus nerve stimulation could improve pain and related comorbid symptoms for FM patients.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

60 Participants Needed

taVNS for Fibromyalgia

Charlestown, Massachusetts
In this research study we want to learn more about if transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), a safe electrical stimulation tool, can relieve Fibromyalgia pain. A total of 60 subjects with Fibromyalgia will be enrolled in this study at Massachusetts General Hospital, Charlestown Navy Yard campus.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Not Yet Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased
Age:18 - 65

60 Participants Needed

tDCS + Exercise for Fibromyalgia

Charlestown, Massachusetts
This trial aims at understanding the mechanisms of optimized transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) (16 tDCS sessions combined with exercise)\] on pain control. Optimized tDCS can lead to stronger engagement of the endogenous pain regulatory system that will ultimately lead to increased pain relief in patients with fibromyalgia (FM). Therefore, the investigators designed a 2x2 factorial mechanistic trial \[tDCS (active and sham) and aerobic exercise (AE) (active and control)\] to evaluate the effects of 4 weeks of tDCS coupled with exercise on the endogenous pain regulatory system assessed by conditioned pain modulation (CPM) and central sensitization as assessed by temporal slow pain summation (TSPS), and compared to either intervention alone and to no intervention.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased
Age:18 - 65

116 Participants Needed

Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Fibromyalgia

Cambridge, Massachusetts
Transauricular vagus nerve stimulation (taVNS) is a newer delivery system, using a non-invasive stimulation device placed at the ear's concha. TaVNS is a portable, safe, and low-cost intervention, and according to some studies, taVNS may influence nociception and pain perception, which can lead to potential applications for various painful illnesses, including fibromyalgia (FM). This trial aims to investigate the clinical effects of taVNS on pain control in FM subjects.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Not Yet Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

152 Participants Needed

Physical Therapy + Antidepressant for Chronic Lower Back Pain with Depression

Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts
This study will examine how the use of antidepressant, physical therapy, and combination of both affects pain, function, and depression outcomes in chronic low back pain patients.
No Placebo Group
Pivotal Trial (Near Approval)

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 2, 3

330 Participants Needed

Acupuncture for Chronic Pain

Commack, New York
The purpose of this study is to compare two types of acupuncture with usual care on treating chronic pain. This study has three groups. Two groups will received acupuncture. One group will receive usual standard of care for 12 weeks and then will receive acupuncture. Acupuncture is an ancient Chinese technique of using very thin needles inserted in the skin to treat different symptoms and illness, and to promote healing. Each group will undergo a different method of needle administration.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

360 Participants Needed

Health Coaching for Chronic Pain Syndrome

East Orange, New Jersey
The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) labels chronic pain as one of the most extensive health care issues facing our society with "severe impacts on all aspects of the lives of its sufferers."1 Pain predominant chronic multisymptom illness (Pain-CMI, e.g., fibromyalgia) is a particularly debilitating and presumptive service connected condition for Veterans who deployed to the Gulf region. Health coaching is an appealing potential approach to improve the disability of Pain-CMI because it is personalized to the Veteran's unique goals and beliefs about Pain-CMI and it will be widely available as the VA is rolling out health coaching. The goal of this proposal is to understand if health coaching is also efficacious for a complex pain condition, Pain-CMI.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

260 Participants Needed

TENS Therapy for Fibromyalgia

Sherbrooke, Quebec
The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the short-term (24-hour) effect of conventional transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) compared to Sham TENS on pain induced by resistance training in women with fibromyalgia. The main questions it aims to answer are: 1. Can conventional TENS effectively reduce pain intensity and unpleasantness during and after a resistance training session in women with fibromyalgia? 2. Is there a significant difference between the effects of conventional TENS and Sham TENS on exercise-induced pain in this population? Researchers will compare a conventional TENS group to a Sham TENS group to see if active TENS application during and after resistance training sessions leads to reduced pain levels and improved pain perception. Participants will: * Undergo a supervised resistance training session * Receive either conventional TENS or ShamTENS treatment during and after exercise * Complete pain assessments, measuring both intensity and unpleasantness, before, during, and up to 24 hours after exercise sessions

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased
Age:40+
Sex:Female

24 Participants Needed

Propranolol Reconsolidation Therapy for Chronic Pain

Sherbrooke, Quebec
The primary aim of this study is to document the feasibility and acceptability of an intervention consisting of pain neuroscience education and reconsolidation therapy with propranolol in adults suffering from chronic pain (chronic low back pain or fibromyalgia). The secondary aim of the study is to estimate the effect size of the intervention on pain and function one month post-intervention, and to obtain data for sample-size calculation for a subsequent randomized controlled trial.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 2
Age:18 - 65

48 Participants Needed

Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for Fibromyalgia

Rochester, New York
The first goal of this study is to see how brain activity changes in people with fibromyalgia after they get a treatment called rTMS (repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation). Researchers are looking at how the parts of the brain that control movement (called motor cortices) respond to this treatment. The second goal is to find out if the changes in brain activity are different between the right and left sides of the brain, depending on which side gets the treatment.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Not Yet Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased
Age:18 - 65
Sex:Female

20 Participants Needed

Brain Imaging Study for Fibromyalgia

Halifax, Nova Scotia
Drugs used for managing Fibromyalgia pain have not proven to be effective and pain continues to cost Canadians $60 billion a year without truly helping those who suffer. The study proposes to investigate the factors related to a person that can enhance or reduce the effectiveness of pain treatments in people suffering with Fibromyalgia pain. Treatment response to painkillers in a person may be related to their brain, social, and psychological makeup. The investigators aim to study these factors to identify and develop feasible and robust indicators based on a person's biological makeup (also called biomarkers). These biomarkers will allow doctors and researchers to predict more accurately which treatment and prevention strategies for a particular disease will work in which groups of people. These measures will offer new opportunities for improving treatment such as by tailoring treatment to meet the specific needs of each patient based on his/her biological and psychological makeup. Towards the specific aim, data will first be collected in several experimental domains for studying treatment expectations (cognitive, psychosocial, brain-related). These 'experimental' data will be compared between Fibromyalgia (FM) and healthy participants to yield new understanding of the factors that govern treatment response. At the end of experimental data collection, the investigators will collect data in the 'clinical' domain. Hence, at the end of the experimental sessions, a subset of FM participants will receive a mock drug (placebo disguised as an approved pain treatment) and another subset will provide pain ratings only and hence serve as a waiting list control for the placebo trial. Data will be studied in steps to understand factors that mediate treatment outcomes and finally the investigators will use advanced computational tools used for big data analysis and aim to identify factors that can be used as biomarkers and precision medicine tools.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

35 Participants Needed

rTMS for Fibromyalgia

Hamilton, Ontario
Fibromyalgia is a syndrome associated with fatigue and chronic pain, leading to significant physical limitations and impaired quality of life. There are several challenges that complicate the diagnosis and management of fibromyalgia. The etiology is not well defined, as there are several proposed factors that may trigger the genesis of pain in fibromyalgia including physical and/or emotional life stressors, and genetic predispositions involving neuromodulator pathways. Chronic pain in fibromyalgia arises in the absence of tissue pathology, and consequently a lack of consensus on reliable diagnostic criteria. Understanding the neurophysiology of fibromyalgia would aid in the discovery of objective biomarkers for diagnosis. Therefore, the goals of this study are to: 1. Compare the neurophysiological responses in fibromyalgia compared to healthy controls. 2. Determine whether a two-week rTMS protocol will alter pain in individuals with fibromyalgia.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Not Yet Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased
Age:20 - 65

60 Participants Needed

Neuromodulation Device for Fibromyalgia

Virginia Beach, Virginia
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic disorder that affects the musculoskeletal system, causing widespread pain, tenderness, and fatigue. It is estimated to affect 1-5% of the population. The primary symptom of fibromyalgia is widespread pain throughout the body, accompanied by tenderness and sensitivity to pressure. Pharmacological treatments include drugs such as antidepressants, anticonvulsants, and painkillers. Another treatment option for fibromyalgia is the use of devices such as Quell. Other non-pharmacological treatment options for fibromyalgia include cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT), biofeedback, and relaxation techniques. Remote Electrical Neuromodulation (REN) is a non-pharmacological technology that induces subthreshold, non-painful neurostimulation signals that activate an endogenic pain-management system termed Conditioned Pain Modulation (CPM), to produce generalized pain relief in remote body areas. Multiple studies have shown that REN is safe and effective for the acute treatment of migraine in adults and adolescents, as well as migraine prevention. The current study examines the safety and efficacy of REN technology, implemented via the FibroNova device for treating fibromyalgia pain and related symptoms.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

170 Participants Needed

Medical Cannabis for Chronic Pain

Beechwood, Ohio
This trial will investigate if medical cannabis can effectively reduce pain and improve quality of life for patients with chronic conditions. The study will gather data through an online questionnaire about patients' use of cannabis and its effects. Medical cannabis interacts with the body's natural system to help manage pain and other symptoms. Medical cannabis has been increasingly studied and used as an alternative treatment for managing chronic pain, with numerous studies supporting its potential benefits.
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No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 2
Age:7+

200000 Participants Needed

LIFU for Chronic Pain

Roanoke, Virginia
This trial is testing a new therapy called low-intensity focused ultrasound (LIFU) for people with chronic pain conditions like CRPS and FM. LIFU uses gentle sound waves to target specific brain areas to help reduce pain. The study aims to see if this therapy can lower pain levels and improve other symptoms in these patients.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Age:18 - 65

27 Participants Needed

Light Therapy for Chronic Pain

Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Participants with chronic pain conditions including chronic low back pain and fibromyalgia may benefit from light stimuli presented to the retina to reduce chronic pain severity and pain sensitivity. Participants will be recruited into this study and will be presented with one of three uniform light stimuli via a wide-field ganzfeld in three conditions to determine the retinal mechanisms that reduce pain. This work will lead to a greater understanding of retinal mechanisms that contribute to pain and will assist the design of future studies to harness the potential of light based pain therapies.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Suspended
Age:18 - 65

60 Participants Needed

Light Therapy for Musculoskeletal Pain

Chapel Hill, North Carolina
The goal of this study will be to understand the biological mechanisms that are responsible to light-driven analgesia. Light presented to the retina has been shown to have pain relieving properties in pre-clinical and clinical studies. In this study the investigators will evaluate the functional connectivity between subcortical visual areas and non-image forming brain areas that are involved in pain sensation. The investigators will also evaluate how three colored light stimuli presented to the retina results in changes in whole brain evoked activation patterns in participants with chronic musculoskeletal pain and in healthy controls. The investigators will also assess while brain evoked activation patterns in response to a pressure pain stimulus in the presence of three light stimuli in individuals with chronic musculoskeletal pain and healthy controls.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Not Yet Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

60 Participants Needed

Why Other Patients Applied

"I changed my diet in 2020 and I’ve lost 95 pounds from my highest weight (283). I am 5’3”, female, and now 188. I still have a 33 BMI. I've been doing research on alternative approaches to continue my progress, which brought me here to consider clinical trials."

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Obesity PatientAge: 58

"My orthopedist recommended a half replacement of my right knee. I have had both hips replaced. Currently have arthritis in knee, shoulder, and thumb. I want to avoid surgery, and I'm open-minded about trying a trial before using surgery as a last resort."

HZ
Arthritis PatientAge: 78

"As a healthy volunteer, I like to participate in as many trials as I'm able to. It's a good way to help research and earn money."

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Healthy Volunteer PatientAge: 38

"I was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer three months ago, metastatic to my liver, and I have been receiving and responding well to chemotherapy. My blood work revealed that my tumor markers have gone from 2600 in the beginning to 173 as of now, even with the delay in treatment, they are not going up. CT Scans reveal they have been shrinking as well. However, chemo is seriously deteriorating my body. I have 4 more treatments to go in this 12 treatment cycle. I am just interested in learning about my other options, if any are available to me."

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Pancreatic Cancer PatientAge: 40

"I've tried several different SSRIs over the past 23 years with no luck. Some of these new treatments seem interesting... haven't tried anything like them before. I really hope that one could work."

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Depression PatientAge: 51

Psilocybin + Psychotherapy for Fibromyalgia

Ann Arbor, Michigan
The pressing need for effective fibromyalgia (FM) treatments, the known safety of psilocybin therapy, and the mechanistic plausibility for potential benefit provide a backdrop for investigating psilocybin therapy as a treatment for FM. The primary objective of this study is to evaluate the clinical benefit of oral psilocybin in concert with psychotherapy to treat chronic pain symptoms in patients with FM.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 2
Age:25 - 64

10 Participants Needed

Pain Exposure Therapy for Fibromyalgia

Ann Arbor, Michigan
This study is intended to test whether a brief Zoom-based behavioral treatment can help adults with fibromyalgia (FM), Lupus, chronic pelvic pain, and chronic low back pain learn effective strategies for reducing pain, disability and other problems that can come with fibromyalgia, Lupus, chronic pelvic pain, and chronic low back pain (such as depression or anxiety).
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

125 Participants Needed

Brain Stimulation for Fibromyalgia

Ann Arbor, Michigan
This project is being conducted to evaluate the impact of explosive synchronization (ES) and its treatment with non-invasive brain stimulation in fibromyalgia (FM). The study design has three components, however, only 2 aims are enrolling participants. The first part (Aim1) is a cross sectional assessment of brain network explosive synchronization activity, connectivity, and response to pain in healthy controls and age and sex-matched fibromyalgia patients; the third part (Aim 3) is a longitudinal assessment of fibromyalgia patients undergoing one week of sham followed by high-definition transcranial direct current stimulation (HD-tDCS) of the motor cortex (M1) or one week of ES HD-tDCS of a brain region identified from computer modelling (Aim 2).

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased
Age:19 - 74

150 Participants Needed

MBSR for Chronic Pain

Ann Arbor, Michigan
The overall objective of this study is to better understand how Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is the most helpful in terms of management of chronic pain symptoms. The studies hypothesis is that an Interventional Response Phenotyping study (light phenotyping) can identify individuals with different underlying mechanisms for their pain who thus respond differentially to evidence-based interventions for chronic pain disorders.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

300 Participants Needed

Sleep Stabilization + Light Therapy for Fibromyalgia

Ann Arbor, Michigan
This research study is testing whether changes in sleep timing and morning light therapy may have an impact on symptoms related to fibromyalgia.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

390 Participants Needed

Brain Imaging for Juvenile Fibromyalgia

Cincinnati, Ohio
This study evaluates whether differences exist between adolescent females with juvenile-onset fibromyalgia and healthy controls in processing of pain and emotion at the neural level as assessed by functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). The study includes a longitudinal component to evaluate changes in neural processing of pain and emotion before and after different treatment strategies.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Age:13 - 17
Sex:Female

80 Participants Needed

Two-Point Discrimination Training for Chronic Pain

Cincinnati, Ohio
SPECIFIC AIMS Pain in both youth and adults is a complex, subjective and personal experience, and remains poorly understood. One particularly perplexing dimension of some forms of pain is the tendency of pain to spread outside of an affected body site to adjacent location, and then to unaffected body sites. Such widespread pain may reflect an altered spatial tuning of somatosensory processing, such that lateral inhibition is diminished, thereby allowing pain to spread. To date, no therapies exist which are designed specifically to diminish or even reverse the spatial spread of pain. However, training in two-point discrimination holds the potential to retune spatial aspects of somatosensory processing and may represent a novel therapy for widespread pain. Thus, the present investigation will test the following aims: Aim 1. Do youth with chronic pain have disrupted spatial tuning of somatosensory processing? Deficits in two point tactile discrimination have long been noted in adults with chronic pain, but such deficits remain poorly documented in pediatric chronic pain patients. In order to determine if such deficits exist, youth with both chronic pain and healthy youth will undergo assessment of two point discrimination thresholds. Aim 2. Does two-point discrimination training result in diminished pain and disability in youth with somatic pain? After initial characterization of tactile discrimination thresholds, youth with chronic pain will participate in multiple sessions of either two-point discrimination training or a single-point spatially-directed attentional control condition. Training will involve up to 9 additional sessions. Efficacy of training will be assessed by 1) reductions in the spatial extent of pain, 2) reductions in pain intensity and unpleasantness, and 3) reductions in pain-related disability.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting
Trial Phase:Early Phase 1
Age:10 - 17

60 Participants Needed

Exercise for Arthritis

Columbia, South Carolina
The purpose of the study is to see examine the effects of 3 different levels of physical activity (45 minutes/week, 90 minutes/week, or 150 minutes/week) on arthritis symptoms.
No Placebo Group

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Unphased

285 Participants Needed

Nitrous Oxide for Fibromyalgia

Chicago, Illinois
This trial is testing if inhaling nitrous oxide can help people with fibromyalgia by blocking certain brain signals that make pain feel worse. It focuses on patients who have not found relief from other treatments.

Trial Details

Trial Status:Recruiting
Trial Phase:Phase 2

50 Participants Needed

TENS + Physical Therapy for Fibromyalgia

Chicago, Illinois
The purpose of this study is to determine if addition of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) to routine physical therapy improves movement-evoked pain in patients with fibromyalgia (FM). The study will also determine if addition of TENS to routine physical therapy (PT) improves disease activity and symptoms, increases adherence to physical therapy, increases the likelihood of meeting patient specific functional goals, and reduces medication use.
No Placebo Group
Pivotal Trial (Near Approval)

Trial Details

Trial Status:Active Not Recruiting

450 Participants Needed

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