Somatosensory Profiling in Radicular Pain Patients And it's Correlation With Treatment Outcome

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Conditions studied: Radiculopathy, Lower Extremity Radicular Pain

In brief

The investigators hypothesize that there may exist different quantitative sensory profiles between radicular pain patients who respond and those who do not respond to the standard therapy of epidural steroid injections (ESI).

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02130258

Run by

Massachusetts General Hospital

People needed

23

Starts

2012-05-01

Expected to finish

2017-12-01

Last updated by the study team

2018-02-08

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 80. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• diagnosis of lower extremity radicular pain regardless of specific or suspected etiologies
• scheduling an epidural steroid injection (ESI)

You may not qualify if…

• a major psychiatric disorder requiring a recent (within one month) hospitalization, such as major depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, anxiety disorder, and psychosis
• subject is taking illicit or recreational drug detected through a urine toxicology screen
• subject has had an interventional pain management procedures within the last eight weeks that may alter QST responses including neuraxial or local anesthetic block
• subject had a change in dosage of neuromodulatory pain medication (including gabapentin, pregabalin, cymbalta, amitriptyline, nortriptyline, trileptal, etc) in the past two weeks
• subject is pregnant
• subject has pending litigation involving the current pain condition being treated and studied.

Where it is running

• MGH Center for Translational Pain Research — Boston, Massachusetts, United States

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