Phrenic Nerve Infiltration in Neck Pain

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2023-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Neck pain frequently present comorbidities in peridiaphragmatic organs. The innervation of these organs include the phrenic nerve. It is known that peridiaphragmatic organs trigger referred pain in the neck area. As well, previous studies have shown that visceral disorders increase sensitization in somatic tissues. Our study aims to analyze the ability of phrenic nerve infiltration to diminsh sensitization and improve neck symptoms in the absence of neurological, traumatic or infectius pathology that justifies the pain, by means of a randomized controlled trial.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Seville
• Treatments: Bupivacaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Over 18 and under 64 years old

• Patients attending to the physician or physical therapist with a main complaint of neck pain

• Presentation of any peridiaphragmatic visceral disorder.

• That they agree to participate in the project by signing the informed consent.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Illness of neurological, traumatic, oncological, infectious or rheumatic (fibromyalgia, ankylosing spondylitis...) origin.

• Uncooperative subject.

• Severe psychiatric illness.

• Loss of Cognitive Ability.

• Contraindication to infiltration of the phrenic nerve.

• History of head, spinal or upper limb surgery

• History of infiltration for the neck pain in the previous 3 months

• History of physical therapy for the neck pain in the previous 30 days