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STIMCONEConus Medullaris Stimulation With 5 Columns Lead Versus Medical Treatment in Refractory Pudendal Neuralgia: a Randomized, Open, Controlled, Multicenter Trial.

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What is being tested

CMS group

+ OMM group

DeviceOther
Who is being recruted

Nerve Compression Syndromes+7

+ Nervous System Diseases

+ Neuralgia

Over 18 Years
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How is the trial designed

Treatment Study

Interventional
Study Start: September 2015
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Summary

Principal SponsorNantes University Hospital
Last updated: January 28, 2026
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Study start date: September 30, 2015

Actual date on which the first participant was enrolled.

In this national multicenter prospective open label trial, patients will be randomized 1:1 to experimental group (CMS group : Conus Medullaris Stimulation using pentapolar surgical lead, plus optimal medical management) or to control group (OMM group : optimal medical management alone) and followed for 12 months, in intention to treat. 42 patients suffering of refractory pudendal neuralgia will be included. Optimal medical management will be prescribed by algologists in both groups according to patient pain relief.

Official TitleConus Medullaris Stimulation With 5 Columns Lead Versus Medical Treatment in Refractory Pudendal Neuralgia: a Randomized, Open, Controlled, Multicenter Trial.
NCT02564172
Principal SponsorNantes University Hospital
Last updated: January 28, 2026
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Protocol

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
Design Details

42 patients to be enrolled

Total number of participants that the clinical trial aims to recruit.

Treatment Study

These studies test new ways to treat a disease, condition, or health issue. The goal is to see if a new drug, therapy, or approach works better or has fewer side effects than existing options.



Eligibility

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria: person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Conditions
Criteria

Any sex

Biological sex of participants that are eligible to enroll.

Over 18 Years

Range of ages for which participants are eligible to join.

Healthy volunteers not allowed

If individuals who are healthy and do not have the condition being studied can participate.

Conditions

Pathology

Nerve Compression SyndromesNervous System DiseasesNeuralgiaNeurologic ManifestationsNeuromuscular DiseasesPainPeripheral Nervous System DiseasesSigns and SymptomsPathological Conditions, Signs and SymptomsPudendal Neuralgia

Criteria

PRE-SCREENING CRITERIA: * Male or female aged 18 years or over * Pudendal neuralgia according published Nantes criteria * History of failure medical management : defined by HAS such as intractable pain after failure (by side effect, ineffective, or contraindication) at effective dose and combination of following treatment: * Pain treatment OMS analgesics Level I or II * Tricyclicantidepressant * Antiepileptics * Nerve block * Muscle relaxants * Physiotherapy * TENS (Transcutaneus electric nerve stimulation) * Psychobehavioral approach * Failure of pudendal nerve decompression surgery performed more than 12 months ago * Neuropathic pain according to criteria of the Neuropathic Pain Diagnostic Questionnaire (DN4). * Subjects able of giving informed consent * Affiliation with French social security system. * Average or maximum pain experienced greater than or equal to 5/10 on a visual analogue scale INCLUSION CRITERIA: * Average or maximum pain experienced greater than or equal to 50/100 on a visual analogue scale (average of data collected 7 days prior to the inclusion visit and recorded by the patient on the clinical diary) * Evaluation by multidisciplinary team including neuro-surgeons, algologists and psychologists performed, (if not already done in the previous year for algologists and psychologists) * Given informed consent. EXCLUSION CRITERIA: * Pregnant, or planning to become pregnant during the study (12months) * Adults under guardianship or trusteeship * Being treated or has been treated with spinal cord stimulation, subcutaneous or peripheral nerve stimulation, intrathecal drug delivery system. * Had pudendal nerve decompression surgery less than 12 months ago * Is suspected of substance abuse * Has unresolved major issues of secondary gain * Exhibits major psychiatric morbidity * Has life expectancy inferior to 5 years * Implant spinal cord stimulation surgery contraindication : * Magnetic resonnance imaging contraindication * History of coagulation disorder * Severe immunodepression, systemic, due to medicine drug intake or not (AIDS, transplanted, under anti TNF alpha treatment, …) * Current infection * Would be unable to operate the spinal cord stimulation equipment, undergo the study assessments or complete questionnaires or clinical diary, based on the opinion of the investigator * Unwilling to be treated with spinal cord stimulation, comply with study requirements. * Suffering from another neuropathic pain, or chronic pain, cancer, diabetic neuropathy * Patient with cardiac sentry stimulator or planned to be implanted with one

Study Plan

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Treatment Groups
Study Objectives

2 intervention groups are designated in this study

This study does not include a placebo group 

Treatment Groups

Group I

Experimental
Conus medullaris stimulation with pentapolar surgical lead plus optimal medical management.

Group II

Active Comparator
Optimal medical management alone.

Study Objectives

Primary Objectives

Secondary Objectives

Study Centers

These are the hospitals, clinics, or research facilities where the trial is being conducted. You can find the location closest to you and its status.

This study has 7 locations

Suspended

Lyon University Hospital

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Suspended

Clinic Catherine de Sienne

Nantes, France
Suspended

Hôpital Foch

Suresnes, France
Suspended

Lille University Hospital

Lille, France
Completed7 Study Centers