Tactile Acuity in Experimentally Induced Acute Low Back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT03021278
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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 determine whether experimentally induced acute low back pain might lead to alteration in lumbar tactile acuity measured in region affected by pain compared to pain-free side and pain-free controls.
Study details
- Official title
- Lumbar Tactile Acuity in Experimentally Induced Acute Low Back Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: Saline injection
- Other: Sham injection
- Sponsor
- The Jerzy Kukuczka Academy of Physical Education in Katowice
- Collaborators
- Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
- Start date
- 2017-01
- Primary completion
- 2017-06
- Sex
- Male
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 35 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Poland
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Only participants with similar mechanical detection threshold (MDT) on both sides of the spine will be included. Exclusion Criteria: * sex: female * age \< 18 or \> 35 years * laterality: left-handed * current pain experience * episodes of back pain lasting more than 24 hours within the previous one-month period * history of chronic pain, i.e. pain lasting more than one-month * comorbidities affecting the nervous system * cardio-vascular diseases * psychiatric illnesses * any disease requiring systematic drug consumption. * diagnosed hypersensitive reaction to saline solution
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03021278