NoL Index Variations Before and After a Stellate Ganglion Block

Maisonneuve-Rosemont Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Chronic Pain Syndrome

Treatments: Device: NoL index

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03317782

2017-1072

Details and patient eligibility

About

To evaluate and compare the NoL index variations after a painful physiotherapy exercise in patients with upper limb CRPS, before and after a stellate ganglion block.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of upper limb CRPS according to the Budapest criteria12, for more than 6 months;
• Significant pain relief from stellate ganglion block;
• Undergoing physical therapy;
• 18 years and older.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients taking beta blockers

  • Bilateral/generalized CRPS
  • Patients needing sedation for the procedure
  • Inability to understand a Numeric Pain rating Scale due to cognitive dysfunction or linguistic barrier
  • Movement disorder making a person unable to lie still for the duration of the evaluation period.
  • Patient refusal