Paraspinal Block in Nonspecific Low Back Pain
CompletedPhase 3NCT02387567
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of a treatment involving the application of lidocaine injected on the low back area for pain control. The study will compare this form of treatment with other options such as physical exercises or pain killer medication, different measurements are going to be used to quantify the response to each of these treatments.
Study details
- Official title
- Study on the Effects of Paraspinal Lidocaine Injection on Nonspecific Low Back Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Drug: Lidocaine
- Drug: Sham Lidocaine
- Other: Standard treatment
- Sponsor
- Marta Imamura
- Collaborators
- Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
- Organization
- University of Sao Paulo
- Start date
- 2007-01
- Primary completion
- 2013-01
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 20 Years to 60 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Brazil
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion criteria: * Age between 20 to 60 years; * Clinical symptoms of vertebral pain that is unresponsive to symptomatic treatment with anti-inflammatory drugs for 3 months; * Moderate to severe pain: visual analog scale (VAS) \> 4; * Diagnosis of chronic nonspecific low back pain; * MiniMental test (MEEM) between 24 and 30; * Availability to comply with the visits; * Agree with signing the Informed Consent Form Exclusion criteria: * Severe psychiatric disease that requires psychiatric care; * Neurological disorders (lumbosciatic pain); * Concurrent fibromyalgia, per the 1990 diagnostic criteria of the American Academy of Rheumatology * Concurrent rheumatic disease * History of allergy to lidocaine (used for paraspinal blocks) * Labor problems * History of surgery on the lumbar spine * No availability to visit the clinic for treatment and evaluations.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02387567