Lidocaine Injection and Ischemic Compression on Chronic Pelvic Pain Treatment

Summary

Our hypothesis is that with comparison of effectiveness of two most common techniques of treatment for myofascial pain syndrome (injection of local anesthesia and ischemic compression) we could choice the most adequate to treat this disease. This way we could decrease the expenses with medicines, examinations, consultations and the time that women remains without a diagnosis and treatment.

Timeline

Start

2008-02

Primary completion

2009-10

Completion

2010-03

Outcome

Met primary endpoint

Stopped: “Lidocaine injection group showed significant improvement in pain”

paper Clinical response rates and pain relief were significantly better at 1, 4, and 12 weeks for those receiving local anaesthetic injections PMID 26628263 ↗

Publications

• Montenegro ML, Braz CA, Rosa-e-Silva JC, Candido-dos-Reis FJ, Nogueira AA, Poli-Neto OB. Anaesthetic injection versus ischemic compression for the pain relief of abdominal wall trigger points in women with chronic pelvic pain. BMC Anesthesiol. 2015 Dec 1;15:175. doi: 10.1186/s12871-015-0155-0.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Subject	Lidocaine	Other / unclassified	2 ml	Other

Indications