Ketoprofen Gel vs Placebo in Low Back Pain

Akdeniz University

Status and phase: Unknown; Phase 4

Conditions: Mechanical Low Back Pain

Treatments: Other: Placebo; Drug: Ketoprofen

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02491879

24924

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aimed to analyse the analgesic effect of ketoprofen gel in patients presented with mechanical low-back pain to the emergency department.

Full description

Mechanical low-back pain which warrants immediate pain relief is not an infrequent symptom for emergency department physicians to deal with. Parenteral analgesic is the most common drugs for the these patients in emergency department. However, pain killers in gel forms have not been studied sufficiently for ceasing the pain of these patients. This study aimed to analyse the analgesic effect of ketoprofen gel in patients presented with mechanical low-back pain to the emergency department.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients over 18 and lower 65 years old
• Patients presented with mechanical low-back pain

Exclusion criteria

• Pain more than 24 hours
• Pain lower than with a pain score of 40 mm
• Allergy to ketoprofen
• Drug or alcohol addiction
• pregnancy and breast feeding

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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100 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Ketoprofen

Experimental group

Description:

Ketoprofen gel

Treatment:

Drug: Ketoprofen

Placebo

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Placebo form of ketoprofen gel

Treatment:

Other: Placebo