Prediction of Outcome of Interventional Pain Management
SuspendedNCT02774694
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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)
Interventional pain management for back and neck pain is widely used, but the indications and relative merits of these techniques rest subject to discussion. This study aims to identify prognostic criteria for patients who might specifically benefit from interventional pain management. Specifically, the nociceptive reflex threshold will be investigated, which is a measure of central sensibilisation and thus a potentially important prognostic factor.
Study details
- Official title
- Observational Study of the Nociceptive Flexion Reflex Threshold to Predict Outcome After Interventional Pain Management Procedures in Patients With Chronic Back and Neck Pain. A Study of Diagnostic Accuracy
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Device: nociceptive flexion reflex (NFR) threshold ("Paintracker", Dolosys GmbH, Berlin, Germany)
- Sponsor
- Benno Rehberg-Klug
- Organization
- University Hospital, Geneva
- Start date
- 2026-06
- Primary completion
- 2027-09
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Switzerland
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * patients with chronic low back or neck pain (duration \>3 months) * scheduled for the following interventions: epidural injection, facet block, medial branch block, facet radiofrequency denervation, spinal cord stimulator implantation Exclusion Criteria: * inability to understand the patient information or the study questionnaires * patients \<18 years old * patients with implanted pacemakers or defibrillators
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02774694