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The aim of this proposal is to characterize pain inhibition in healthy controls and Temporomandibular Disorder (TMD) patients with two models of endogenous pain modulation (off-set analgesia; conditioned pain modulation), and to investigate the function of the endogenous opioid system in these responses by using pharmacological blockade of the opioid receptor.


Clinical Trial Description

Dysfunction in endogenous pain inhibitory systems has been proposed as a factor in the development and maintenance clinical pain disorders particularly in Temporomandibular Disorder (TMD). Dysfunction has been observed with a model known as diffuse noxious inhibitory controls (DNIC), but other models that engage inhibitory systems (offset analgesia) have not been fully evaluated in chronic pain patients.

DNIC evaluates an individual's capacity to engage endogenous pain inhibition. The paradigm is a spatial inhibition model based on the principle that "pain-inhibits-pain" in which pain in a local area is inhibited by a second pain that can be anywhere else in the body. DNIC is traditionally studied by observing a reduction of pain produced by a focal pain stimulus (contact heat) as a result of a second painful stimulus. Research from our lab and others suggests that pain inhibition is reduced in a number of chronic pain conditions. The investigators preliminary data suggests that pain inhibition during DNIC is modulated in part by endogenous opioids; however, results from other DNIC studies have been mixed. In addition, it is possible that reductions in the ability to engage endogenous inhibitory systems in chronic pain patients are due to a weakening of the endogenous opioid system. While pharmacological studies have been conducted with healthy cohorts, only one study has examined the opioid involvement in chronic pain patients.

Offset analgesia is thought to reflect a form of temporal pain inhibition which is usually defined by three stimulus temperature phases: a baseline phase followed by a manipulation phase in which the temperature is briefly increased and returns to the baseline temperature during an "offset" phase. A reduction in pain ratings is observed approximately 15s after the temperature drop (third phase), which is ~50% lower than ratings at the same time point for "constant" trials that continued 48°C for 40s. No studies have examined offset analgesia in a chronic pain cohort or its sensitivity of opioid blockade. ;


Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Intervention Model: Crossover Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Basic Science


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NCT number NCT01327326
Study type Interventional
Source University of Florida
Contact
Status Withdrawn
Phase N/A
Start date December 2011
Completion date July 2012

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