PET/CT Guided Robotic Arm-assisted Pain Palliation in Chronic Nociceptive Low Backache
CompletedNot applicableNCT05560165
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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)
A study to investigate the role of F-18 sodium fluoride in localizing the pain generator in participants with chronic nociceptive musculoskeletal low back ache and to study the use of PET/CT guided robotic arm assisted injection for targeted injection of a combination of corticosteroid and local anesthetic for pain palliation.
Study details
- Official title
- F-18 Sodium Fluoride PET/CT Guided Robotic Arm-assisted Pain Palliation in Chronic Nociceptive Low Backache
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Procedure: F-18 sodium fluoride PET/CT guided robotic arm assisted injection of combination of local anesthetic and steroids
- Sponsor
- Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh
- Start date
- 2022-01-01
- Primary completion
- 2024-09-30
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- India
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Participants with chronic nociceptive low back ache (for more than three months) do not have adequate pain relief with oral analgesics. * Participants who are ready to give written informed consent for the procedure Exclusion Criteria: * MRI showing the neuropathic cause of pain with spinal cord or nerve root compression. * Extensive bone or joint destruction and displacement such as spondylolisthesis or compression fractures of the vertebra. * Imaging, clinical and hematological findings suggestive of infective/ malignant pathology. * Patients with deranged coagulation profile * Pregnant and lactating women
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05560165