Bupivacaine or Radiofrequency for Shoulder Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT05778422
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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)
Comparative study between pulsed radiofrequency in suprascapular nerve or bupivacaine block for chronic shoulder pain
Study details
- Official title
- Comparative Study Between Pulsed Radiofrequency in Suprascapular Nerve or Bupivacaine Block for Chronic Shoulder Pain
- Conditions
- Shoulder Pain
- Rotator Cuff Impingement Syndrome
- Impingement Syndrome
- Adhesive Capsulitis
- Rotator Cuff Injuries
- Interventions
- Drug: Suprascapular nerve block with bipuvacaine
- Procedure: Pulsed radiofrequency
- Sponsor
- Federal University of São Paulo
- Start date
- 2021-01-01
- Primary completion
- 2022-01-01
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 90 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Brazil
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Age over 18 years old * Chronic shoulder pain (more than 3 months) * Clinical and imaging diagnosis: rotator cuff injury, adhesive capsulitis, supraspinatus, tendinopathy, bicipital tendinitis, impingement syndrome, subscapularis tendinopathy, , subacromial and subdeltoid arthrosis, acromioclavicular arthrosis, subdeltoid subacromial bursitis * Pain intensity ≥4 on movement, on a numerical scale from zero to 10 (where zero means no pain and 10 the most intense pain imaginable). Exclusion Criteria: * Arrhythmia * Cognitive change (inability to answer questions) * Psychiatric illness * Infection at the site of the procedure * Coagulopathy, * Use of anticoagulants * Hypersensitivity to medications * Pregnant * Use of pacemaker
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05778422