T5 or below, it's for Paraplegics. I don't know about the rest of you, but through the years as a Quad I've noticed that very few programs, studies or support exist. Personally, I've always felt like the outcast when it comes to these things.
Aaron Mann On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Don Price <[email protected]> wrote: > *Just passing this information along to the email list. If you have a > spinal cord injury and chronic neuropathic pain the study [below] may be of > interest to you. I cannot endorse or verify its authenticity, but it does > seem legitimate.* > > *Don.* > > *From:* Pomerantz, Ilana L. > [mailto:[email protected]<[email protected]>] > > *Sent:* Wednesday, December 11, 2013 10:06 AM > *To:* Don Price > *Subject:* Spinal Chord Injury Pain Trials > > Hi Don, > I'm Ilana, a study coordinator for the Translational Pain Research Group > at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. We have been > conducting clinical research studies with the purpose of discovering new > drugs to treat chronic pain in spinal cord injury patients for over 15 years > now. We are actively recruiting for a spinal cord injury pain trial that is > evaluating a new treatment for chronic neuropathic pain. It would be great > if you could share this information with your members! > The study would require 4 short inpatients visits to Brigham and Women's > Hospital in Boston MA, and we will help with arrangements and provide full > reimbursement for travel expenses. For this study, we are looking for > individuals who have an injury at T5 or below with chronic neuropathic pain > observed for at least 3 months. I have attached an announcement to this > email so that you can review them and share with the team. Do you have a > web site where we could post the information? If you have any questions > about the study, please let me know. > Many Thanks! > Ilana Pomerantz > Study Coordinator > Translational Pain Research > Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Management > Brigham and Women's Hospital > 75 Francis St, NA L1106D > Boston, Ma 02115 > Office 617-525-7246 > Fax 425-675-5556 > www.paintrials.org >
