Does Botulinum Toxin Type-A Injection an Effective Way of Relieving Pain in Myofascial Pain Syndrome Patients or Not

Summary

In this research prilocaine and botulinum toxin (BoNT-A) interventions prospectively compared to find out the effect of BoNT-A injection on myofascial pain syndrome (MPS). The main question it aims to answer is: Does Botulinum Toxin Type-A an Effective Way of Relieving Pain in Myofascial Pain Syndrome or not? For this purpose thirty-eight patients randomly assigned into two study groups. While BoNT-A injection group (BIG group n=19) treated with 20 units of toxin to each trigger point (TP), remaining treated with 2 ml prilocaine (PIG group n=19) with same procedure. Pre-treatment, 2nd and 6th weeks findings were clinically recorded.

Timeline

Start

2009-08-26

Primary completion

2010-01-26

Completion

2010-01-26

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