NCT02130258

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

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 23 (actual)
• Sponsor: Massachusetts General Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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).

Detailed description

The investigators are comparing warm/cold sensation, heat/cold pain threshold, heat/cold pain tolerance, wind-up, and conditioned pain modulation (CPM) as measured by Quantitative Sensory Testing (QST) between subjects with a radicular pain condition. The investigators are comparing those who respond and those who do not respond to standard therapy (ESI) before and after the treatment.

Conditions

• Radiculopathy
• Lower Extremity Radicular Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Quantitative Sensory Testing (QST)	Subjects will undergo hot and cold temperature testing using the QST device at two points: 1) Before ESI and 2) after ESI.
PROCEDURE	Epidural Steroid Injection (ESI)	Subjects will receive an ESI by their clinical physician as part of their clinical treatment. This procedure is not given as part of the research study.

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-05-01
• Primary completion: 2016-12-01
• Completion: 2017-12-01
• First posted: 2014-05-05
• Last updated: 2018-02-08
• Results posted: 2018-02-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States