Comparison of the Efficacy of Prolotherapy Injection Therapy & Local Anesthetic Injection Therapy.

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2023-02-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Myofascial pain syndrome is a disease characterized by pain over the trigger point in a taut muscle band. After the correct diagnosis is made, many treatment methods can be applied.

One of these treatments is the treatment with prolotherapy injection. Proliferant reveals defense mechanisms remove them and then start the healing process in the damaged area. Usually, dextrose water is used. Lidocaine is an anesthetic. With lidocaine injection, the passage of painful stimuli is prevented and the opioid system is activated. The aim of the study is to compare the efficacy of prolotherapy and lidocaine treatment in the myofascial pain syndrome.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Istanbul Physical Medicine Rehabilitation Training and Research Hospital
• Treatments: Anesthetics; Anesthetics, Local; Lidocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Primary myofascial pain syndrome (MAS) in the upper trapezius muscle

• At least one active myofascial trigger point in the upper trapezius muscle

• Patients with symptoms between 1 day and 2 months

• Age:18 to 65 years old

• Cases who did not receive any physical therapy or medication to relieve pain

Exclusion Criteria:

• Having a sensory defect in the area to be injected

• Active inflammatory, rheumatic, or infectious disease

• Peripheral nerve lesions such as polyneuropathy, radiculopathy

• Those who use anticoagulants, those with bleeding diathesis

• Patients whose skin surface is not intact in the area to be injected

• Patients diagnosed with fibromyalgia or other common musculoskeletal pain syndromes

• Patients with a history of panic attacks

• Those who are allergic to local anesthetic drug

• People showing symptoms of Covid-19

• Those who have had a trigger point injection in the last 6 months

• Those who are pregnant

• Those who have undergone vertebral or shoulder surgery in the last 1 year