NCT04929171

Myofascial Pain and Central Sensitization

The Impact of Nociplastic Pain Features on the Response to Physical Therapy in Patients With Primary Myofascial Pain: A Pilot Study.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 30 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Michigan · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This prospective, observational cohort pilot study compared pain phenotyping and functional measures in 30 participants with non-acute neck and/or shoulder girdle pain consistent with primary myofascial pain at 3-months following a physical therapy referral to study the impact of their baseline degree of pain amplification.

Conditions

• Myofascial Pain
• Physical Therapy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Physical Therapy	Physical therapy for chronic upper quarter myofascial pain syndrome, as prescribed by the patients' physicians

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-05-02
• Primary completion: 2019-11-23
• Completion: 2019-11-23
• First posted: 2021-06-18
• Last updated: 2025-09-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States