Comparison of Therapeutic Effects of Trigger Point Injection and Twin Nerve Block in Chronic Myofascial Pain Patients
CompletedNot applicableNCT03870191
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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)
To see if there is there any difference in the treatment outcomes/results such as changes in pain intensity in patients with myofascial pain who have been treated with trigger point injections or twin block?
Study details
- Official title
- Comparison of Therapeutic Effects of Trigger Point Injection and Twin Nerve Block in Chronic Myofascial Pain Patients
- Conditions
- Myofascial Pain - Dysfunction Syndrome of TMJ
- Trigger Point Pain, Myofascial
- Nerve Block
- Interventions
- Other: Injection of either twin block or trigger point injection.
- Sponsor
- Rutgers University
- Start date
- 2016-06-21
- Primary completion
- 2018-06-05
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 89 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Total sites listed
- 0
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients diagnosed with Myofascial pain with referral based on the DC/TMD criteria * Pain on the masseter and or temporalis muscles * Pain present for at least 3 months Exclusion Criteria: * Generalized muscle disorder such as fibromyalgia * Subjects on chronic pain medication * Subjects who are known to have hypersensitivity to the local anesthetics. * Pregnant women. A pregnancy test will not be given before subject enrollment. Women of childbearing ages will be asked verbally if they are pregnant. If they are unsure, then they will be excluded from the study. * Subjects with cognitive problems e.g. Alzheimer's disease.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03870191