NCT03838393

Prognosis of Trigeminal Neuralgia When Enrolled in a Multidisciplinary Management Program

Prognosis of Trigeminal Neuralgia When Enrolled in a Multidisciplinary Management Program - a Two-year Prospective Real-life Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 186 (actual)
• Sponsor: Danish Headache Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Background: Prognosis of medically treated trigeminal neuralgia patients is assumed to be poor, but the evidence is lacking. Thus, prospective real-life studies of medical management of trigeminal neuralgia are warranted. Methods: Observational study. Patients were consecutively enrolled in a structured management program at a specialist centre for facial pain. Optimisation of medical treatment, physiotherapy, psychotherapy, and advice from trained nurses, were parts of the program. Medically intractable patients were referred for neurosurgery. Data-collection was prospective using standardised schemes and patient surveys. The aim was to describe the two-year outcome of medical treatment at the specialist centre. The primary outcome was a 50% reduction in the overall burden of pain according to a Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) after two years. This study aimed to provide evidence concerning the real-life efficacy of medical management of trigeminal neuralgia (TN) when directed by specialists. The investigatgors hypothesised that the two-year prognosis in a group of medically managed TN patients enrolled in a structured multidisciplinary management program was favourable, defined as a 50 % reduction of the overall burden of pain over a two-year period

Conditions

• Trigeminal Neuralgia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	multidisciplinary management	pharmacological and non.pharmacological treatment (specially trained nurses, psychologists and physiologists)

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-05-01
• Primary completion: 2015-12-01
• Completion: 2015-12-01
• First posted: 2019-02-12
• Last updated: 2019-02-15