Alpha Lipoic Acid and Chronic Lumbosacral Radicular Pain
CompletedPhase 2NCT03428139
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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)
In this study, we try to evaluate the effect of using ALA as an adjuvant treatment in patients scheduled for pulsed radiofrequency treatment (PRFT) of the affected dorsal root ganglion (DRG) for treatment of Lumbo-Sacral radicular pain.
Study details
- Official title
- Role of Alpha Lipoic Acid Combined With Pulsed Radiofrequency in Treatment of Chronic Lumbosacral Radicular Pain: Prospective, Randomized Study
- Conditions
- Radicular
- Neuropathic, Lumbar, Lumbosacral
- Interventions
- Procedure: pulsed radiofrequency
- Drug: pulsed radiofrequency plus alpha lipoic acid
- Sponsor
- Assiut University
- Start date
- 2013-08-20
- Primary completion
- 2017-03-03
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Egypt
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients over 18 years with severe chronic lumbo-sacral radicular pain of more than 6 months duration, not responding to medical treatment, and their Pain scores were \> 7 were included in the study. Exclusion Criteria: * coagulopathy, surgical interference, advanced malignancy, known concurrent neurological or neurodegenerative disease, including those with impaired neurotransmission e.g. myasthenia gravis, multiple sclerosis, spinal cord injury, breastfeeding or pregnancy, allergy/sensitivity to lidocaine anesthetic or/ and non-ionic contrast media or/and steroid therapy, active psychiatric or mental conditions and uncontrolled medical condition.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03428139