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Interest of the Virtual Reality as an Analgesic Support and in the Management the Pre-procedural Anxiety in Rheumatology

RecruitingNAAges 18 Years - anyAllCentre Hospitalier le Mans
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In plain words

What the trial is, and whether it could suit you

As a part of the current rheumatological practice skills, epidural injections through the sacrococcygeal hiatus take part in the strategy for managing radicular diseases. This technical act is easily performed in an outpatient context since it is a brief procedure, performed under clinical and ultrasound control, with good tolerance. Nevertheless, epidural injections by the way of the sacrococcygeal hiatus can be responsible of anxiety for the patient and meet the definition of pain induced by treatment. Among the non-pharmacological methods that can be offered to the patient in this context, hypnosis and distraction allow psycho-corporal support acting on certain factors influencing the painful experience of the gesture: duration of the gesture, calm and pleasant environment, etc... That is the context in which the use of virtual reality is of interest. Its use in supporting procedures

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๐Ÿ“‹ Eligibility rules (as published)
Inclusion Criteria: * Adult patient (age โ‰ฅ 18 years) * Hospitalized in a day-hospitalization department at the General Hospital of Le Mans * For whom a diagnosis of radiculalgia with a duration of less than 6 months is made, for which the imaging is compatible with the symptoms according to the clinician's interpretation * For whom the indication of at least 2 epidural injections by the way of the sacrococcygeal hiatus is retained * Having never experienced an epidural injection through the sacrococcygeal hiatus * Patient able and willing to answer the auto-administered surveys * Person affiliated or beneficiary of a social security * Free, informed and written consent signed by the participant and the investigator (at the latest on the day of inclusion and before any examination required by the research) after oral and written information Exclusion Criteria: * Patient with comorbidity of epilepsy * Patient with a contraindication to performing epidural injections through the sacrococcygeal hiatus * Patient suffering from blindness and / or deafness * Person with a known significant intolerance towards the use of screens and / or virtual reality devices * Patient receiving benzodiazepines and / or other sedative treatment * Patient with a known depressive disease followed by a psychiatrist * Pregnant, breastfeeding or parturient woman * Person deprived of liberty by judicial or administrative decision * Person under forced psychiatric care * Person subject to legal protection * Person unable to express consent * Patient who had participated in an interventional study during the last 30 days * Severely impaired physical and / or mental health which, according to the investigator, may affect the compliance of the study participant
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What it tests

  • Virtual reality headset for first injection
  • Virtual reality headset for second injection
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Where

1 site
Centre Hospitalier Du Mans
Le Mans, France
๐Ÿค Taking part is your choice, and you can leave at any time. Only the trial team can confirm you are eligible โ€” always decide together with your own doctor.
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