NCT00332722

Effectiveness of Cervical Facet Joint Nerve Blocks

Effectiveness of Cervical Facet Joint Nerve Blocks: A Randomized, Prospective, Double-Blind Controlled Evaluation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 120 (actual)
• Sponsor: Pain Management Center of Paducah · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

1. To demonstrate whether: i. Facet joint nerve blocks have therapeutic value beyond the duration of local anesthetic effect. ii. Adjuvant medications (Sarapin and Depo-Medrol) provide additional relief of cervical facet joint pain when used with facet joint nerve blocks. 2. To demonstrate whether or not there are clinically significant improvements in function of patients who receive cervical facet joint nerve block with or without Sarapin and Depo-Medrol (Group II) compared to patients randomized to Group I who receive only local anesthetic blocks. 3. To determine the adverse event profile in both groups.

Conditions

• Neck Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Cervical facet joint nerve blocks

Timeline

• Start date: 2003-09-01
• Primary completion: 2007-01-01
• Completion: 2007-03-01
• First posted: 2006-06-02
• Last updated: 2013-10-01
• Results posted: 2013-10-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States