Impact of Local Lidocaine Paravertebral Cervical Injection on Cervicogenic Dizziness Symptoms

Summary

at least 42 patients affected by cervicogenic dizziness will be allocated to the experimental group or in the placebo group. in the first group patients will received 2 paravertebral intramuscular injection of lidocaine 0.5% while in the placebo group they will received saline solution with the same injection technique. patients will be evaluated by subjective and objective testing before the treatment, immediatly and 3 months after the treatment.

Timeline

Start

2025-08-01

Primary completion

2025-09-15

Completion

2025-09-15

Publications

• Results Micarelli A, Viziano A, Carlino P, Granito I, Micarelli RX, Alessandrini M. Reciprocal roles of joint position error, visual dependency and subjective perception in cervicogenic dizziness. Somatosens Mot Res. 2020 Dec;37(4):262-270. doi: 10.1080/08990220.2020.1803257. Epub 2020 Aug 10.
• Results Karadas O, Inan LE, Ulas U, Odabasi Z. Efficacy of local lidocaine application on anxiety and depression and its curative effect on patients with chronic tension-type headache. Eur Neurol. 2013;70(1-2):95-101. doi: 10.1159/000350619. Epub 2013 Jul 2.
• Results Raeissadat SA, Rayegani SM, Sadeghi F, Rahimi-Dehgolan S. Comparison of ozone and lidocaine injection efficacy vs dry needling in myofascial pain syndrome patients. J Pain Res. 2018 Jun 29;11:1273-1279. doi: 10.2147/JPR.S164629. eCollection 2018.
• Results Mellick LB, Mellick GA. Treatment of acute orofacial pain with lower cervical intramuscular bupivacaine injections: a 1-year retrospective review of 114 patients. J Orofac Pain. 2008 Winter;22(1):57-64.
• Results Ferrara PE, Ronconi G, Viscito R, Pascuzzo R, Rosulescu E, Ljoka C, Maggi L, Ferriero G, Foti C. Efficacy of mesotherapy using drugs versus normal saline solution in chronic spinal pain: a retrospective study. Int J Rehabil Res. 2017 Jun;40(2):171-174. doi: 10.1097/MRR.0000000000000214.
• Results Micarelli A, Viziano A, Augimeri I, Micarelli B, Capoccia D, Alessandrini M. Diagnostic route of cervicogenic dizziness: usefulness of posturography, objective and subjective testing implementation and their correlation. Disabil Rehabil. 2021 Jun;43(12):1730-1737. doi: 10.1080/09638288.2019.1680747. Epub 2019 Oct 26.

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