Capsaicin-Evoked Pain in Patients With CRPS

Danish Pain Research Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: CRPS (Complex Regional Pain Syndromes)

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00468390

Capsaicin in CRPS

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate the effect of capsaicin in patients with Complex Regional Pain Syndrome.

Full description

Primary outcome parameters: Capsaicin-induced pain and inflammation.

Secondary outcome parameters: Peripheral sensory and autonomic function.

Enrollment: 40 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Age: 18 or older.
• Pain in arm or hand > 3 months.
• Diagnosed with CRPS acc. to diagnostic research criteria (Harder et al., 2005)
• Inclusion of healthy subjects: age-, gender-, and BMI-matched.

Exclusion criteria

• Other significant disease affecting the parameters measured, including cardiovascular disease.
• Treatment with anticholinergics, sympathomimetics and parasympathomimetics, and alpha- and beta-adrenergics.