Analgecine for Treatment of Low Back Pain

Efficacy and Safety of Analgecine for Low Back Pain: a Phase III, Randomized, Double-blind, Placebo-controlled, Multicenter Trial

The study examines the efficacy and safety of Analgecine in the treatment of chronic pain in patients with low back pain for 3 months after surgical treatment. It is a randomized, placebo-controlled, double blind, multi-center phase III clinical trial. Patients with chronic low back pain for 3 months after surgical treatment is recruited (age between 18 and 70; pain visual analysis scale (VAS) between 3 and 8). After randomization, subjects are divided into 3 groups: 1) Treatment with Analgecine (Experiment group); 2) Treatment with Neurotropin (positive control group); 3) Placebo group. Subjects will be undergone 4 measurement time points on day 0, 7, 14, and 21. In each time points, subjects are required to score their pain with pain VAS and to have regular blood, urine, and renal/liver function tests. The changes of the pain VAS at day 21 are compared between groups.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

584

Phase

  • Phase 3

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

      • Tianjin, China
        • Tiangjin People's Hospital
    • Guangdong
      • Guangzhou, Guangdong, China
        • Second Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University
    • Hebei
      • Shijiazhuang, Hebei, China
        • No.3 Hospital of Hebei Medical University
    • Hubei
      • Wuhan, Hubei, China
        • Wuhan Union Hospital, Tongji Medical college, Huazhong University of Science and Technology
    • Jiangsu
      • Shanghai, Jiangsu, China
        • Shanghai Sixth People's Hosptial
      • Shanghai, Jiangsu, China
        • Zhong Shan Hospital, Fudan University
    • Shaanxi
      • Xian, Shaanxi, China
        • Xijing Hospital

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years to 70 years (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Patients with chronic low back pain including patients with spinal degeneration, lumbar herniation, lumbar spinal stenosis, and spondylolisthesis
  • Pain sustained for 3 or more months after surgical treatment.
  • Diagnosis is done by X-ray examination.
  • The Visual analysis Scale for Pain is between 3 and 8.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Acute low back pain patients.
  • Allergy to the tested drug.
  • Patients with tuberculosis, tumors, Cushing's syndrome, endocrine diseases, neuropathic diseases, psychiatric problems, and serious deficit in heart / liver /renal functions.
  • Patients with pain caused by vascular diseases, stress, or tumors.
  • Patients with pregnancy, lactation, or planning to have pregnancy within 3 months after recruitment.
  • Alcoholic and drug addicted subjects
  • Dementia patients who can cooperate with the study activities.
  • Patients undergone lumber surgery within 3 months at the date of recruitment.
  • Patients who are directly related to the research staff.
  • Patients who have been participated in other drug clinical trial in the past 3 months at the date of the recruitment.
  • Patients who are not fit for the clinical trial based on the research staff observation.

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
  • Masking: Quadruple

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: Experiment
Test Drug Group: 2 times a day; 4 tablets per time (2 tablets of Analgecine and 2 tab. of placebo)
Analgesic drug under test
Active Comparator: PosCtrl
PosCtrl: Positive Control Group. 2 times a day; 4 tablets / time (2 tab. of Neurotropin and 2 placebo tablets).
Analgesic drug as positive control
Placebo Comparator: Placebo
Placebo Group: 2 times a day; 4 tablets / time (4 placebo tablets).
Blank tablet as placebo.

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Change of Visual Analysis Scale on Pain
Time Frame: Day 0, 7, 14 and 21
Day 0, 7, 14 and 21

Secondary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
ECG
Time Frame: Day 0, 21
Day 0, 21
Routine Hematology Testing
Time Frame: Day 0, 21
Day 0, 21
Routine Urine Testing
Time Frame: Day 0, 21
Day 0, 21
Renal / Liver function tests
Time Frame: Day 0, 21
Day 0, 21
Degree of Improvement of Related Symptoms
Time Frame: Day 0, 7, 14, 21
Day 0, 7, 14, 21

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Investigators

  • Study Director: Steve Chen-Lung Lin, MD, PhD, Graduate School of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University
  • Principal Investigator: Jian Dong, MD, PhD, Zhong Shan Hospital, Fudan University

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start

October 1, 2013

Primary Completion (Actual)

July 1, 2014

Study Completion (Actual)

July 1, 2014

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

June 17, 2014

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

June 17, 2014

First Posted (Estimate)

June 19, 2014

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

December 9, 2015

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

December 8, 2015

Last Verified

August 1, 2014

More Information

Terms related to this study

Other Study ID Numbers

  • vw1401

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