Phrenic Nerve Infiltration in Neck Pain

Recruiting now · Phase 4 · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Chronic Neck Pain

In brief

Neck pain frequently present comorbidities in peridiaphragmatic organs. The innervation of these organs include the phrenic nerve. It is known that peridiaphragmatic organs trigger referred pain in the neck area. As well, previous studies have shown that visceral disorders increase sensitization in somatic tissues. This study aims to analyze the ability of phrenic nerve infiltration to diminish sensitization and improve neck symptoms in the absence of neurological, traumatic or infectious pathology that justifies the pain, by means of a randomized controlled trial.

Key facts

Study ID: NCT05605639
Run by: University of Seville
People needed: 60
Starts: 2022-11-17
Expected to finish: 2025-07-01
Last updated by the study team: 2024-12-11

Who can join

Age: 18 and older, up to 64. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

Over 18 and under 64 years old
Patients attending to the physician or physical therapist with a main complaint of neck pain
Presentation of any peridiaphragmatic visceral disorder.
That the subject agrees to participate in the project by signing the informed consent.

You may not qualify if…

Illness of neurological, traumatic, oncological, infectious or rheumatic (fibromyalgia, ankylosing spondylitis...) origin.
Uncooperative subject.
Severe psychiatric illness.
Loss of Cognitive Ability.
Contraindication to infiltration of the phrenic nerve.
History of head, spinal or upper limb surgery
History of infiltration for the neck pain in the previous 3 months
History of physical therapy for the neck pain in the previous 30 days

Where it is running

Nacho Navarro Fisioterapia — Dos Hermanas, Seville, Spain (enrolling)
Crux Roxa — Seville, Spain (enrolling)

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