View clinical trials related to Myofascial Pain Syndromes.
Filter by:Myofascial pain is a common condition in which patients may experience severe chronic pain. The source of this pain is typically the soft tissue. Current methods to address myofascial pain include a procedure called Trigger point Injections. This method involves identifying the areas of muscles that are causing the pain. The most common way to perform trigger point injection involves infiltrating the muscle with local anesthetics and then repeatedly passing the numbing needle in and out of the muscles (needling). This procedure is successful for most patients. However, there is great variability in the way needling is done. Some pain physicians perform 1-2 needle passes while other pain physicians may exceed 20 passes. There are currently no guidelines as to the number or amount of needle passes needed to achieve pain control. Furthermore, there is no study or research to shed light on the relationship between the number of needles passes and the degree and duration of pain relief coupled with patients' satisfaction. This study is proposed to address this gap in knowledge. It is a prospective and randomized clinical trial that follows the standard of care. The investigators will recruit patients from The University-Banner Medical Center at Tucson, Arizona chronic pain clinic who are candidates for trigger point injections. The participants will be randomized into 3 different groups. Group one will receive 2 needle passes per identified trigger point. Group two will receive ten needle passes per identified trigger point. Group three will receive twenty needle passes per identified trigger point. The investigators will analyze the data to understand the relationship between the number of needles passes and the degree of pain relief, improved functional capacity, and patients' satisfaction.
Fibromyalgia is a chronic condition with an unclear etiology. The syndrome includes symptoms such as chronic musculoskeletal pain, cognitive dysfunctions, fatigue, sleep disorders, and circadian rhythm disturbances. Fibromyalgia-related pain is associated with a substantial socioeconomic burden including greater health care costs and productivity loss from work. Light therapy can improve sleep quality and sleep architecture, advance sleep phases and reduce pain sensitivity and that the effect of light therapy on mood and cognitive function have been widely supported.This randomized controlled study aims to examine the effects of light therapy on sleep quality, depressive symptoms, psychomotor vigilance performance, and overall symptom severity in patients with fibromyalgia.
Fibromyalgia or Fibromyalgic Sindrome (FMS) is a chronic debilitating pain syndrome, characterized by widespread chronic musculoskeletal pain and generalized painful hypersensitivity, which may be associated with systemic, cognitive and psycho-emotional somatic disorders. Etiology is not completely known. The diagnosis of fibromyalgia is anamnestic and clinical, without evident alterations at the objective examination or at laboratory and radiology investigations. According last guidelines, the best approach to treat FMS must be personalized and multidisciplinary, including pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions. Moreover, a correct treatment of comorbidities, practice of bland physical activity or meditative discipline, as well as a pychological support are very important in FMS. The aim of this study is to evaluate the activity of some common therapeutic pathways available for FMS: acupuncture and nutraceutical products; the latter are numerous on the market and based on powerful antioxidants. In this case Migratens was chosen for its composition: α-lipoic acid, polyvitaminic complexes (B and D group vitamins), coenzyme Q10, magnesium and tryptophan.
The study aims is to test the efficacy of an emotional regulation procedure for fibromyalgia patients using Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs). This procedure is based in a task that implies exposition to emotional words. The principal hypothesis is that exposition will improve the clinical symptomatology because the procedure restore an adequate emotional regulation.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the induced-pain characteristics after suprathreshold pressure stimulation at different intensities in fibromyalgia subjects, compared with healthy volunteers.
The study consists in evaluating the neuromuscular response of the gastrocnemious muscles before and after a diacutaneous fibrolysis over the gastrocnemious muscles.
The aim of this study is to analyze the effects of the treatment of the Myosfascial Trigger-Points detected in the gastrocnemius muscles on the neuromuscular response.
To evaluate the effect of Tai chi on Fibromyalgia
The primary objective of the current pilot study is to analyze MRI contrast-enhancement patterns in the hands of patients with fibromyalgia as compared to the findings in healthy controls. Further, to compare enhancement patterns obtained in fibromyalgia patients with those described in inflammatory joint disorders, i.e. rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis. Hypothesis: Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI (DCE-MRI) of the hands in patients with fibromyalgia reveals pathological imaging patterns indicative of diffuse non-arthrogenic inflammation of e.g. superficial soft tissues and /or muscle with patterns distinct from those of inflammatory joint disorders e.g. rheumatoid arthritis and psoriatic arthritis.
Set of real acupuncture treatment and supervised aerobic exercise have better efficacy in pediatric patients with fibromyalgia versus treatment with sham acupuncture and supervised aerobic exercise, as well as treatment versus combination with aerobic exercise and resistance exercise the major muscle groups, both supervised versus group control, who just get guidance for physical activity.