Subcutaneous Carbon Dioxide Insufflations for Acute Non Specific Neck Pain

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2003-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The purpose of the trial is to evaluate whether patients with acute non specific neck pain get pain free sooner, if treated with subcutaneous carbon dioxide insufflations compared to sham ultrasound.

• Phase: Phase 2
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Forschungsinstitut für Balneologie und Kurortwissenschaft Bad Elster

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• participants must report neck pain lasting for less than 7 days

• participants must report a current pain intensity of ≥ 40 mm on a 100 mm visual analogue scale.

• participants must state local neck muscles tenderness during clinical examination at one or more locations

Exclusion Criteria:

• neck pain of specific etiology (e.g., radiculopathy, infection, inflammation, primary tumor, or metastases)

• whiplash injury

• former neck surgery

• pregnancy

• breast feeding.