Status:

UNKNOWN

Effect of Topical Lidocaine on Warm and Cold Sensation in Healthy Individuals

Lead Sponsor:

University of Aarhus

Conditions:

Neuropathy;Peripheral

Thermal Hypesthesia

Eligibility:

All Genders

18-40 years

Phase:

NA

Brief Summary

The purpose of the present study is to systematically test the occurrence of paradoxical and illusory responses to cold and warm stimuli in healthy volunteers with artificial sensory loss.

Detailed Description

Efficient thermal sensation is important for adequate behavioral response to cold or warm stimuli and early signs of neuropathy can be changes in the thermal sensation. Alterations in thermal percept...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Healthy subjects
  • Age between 18 and 40 years
  • Participant is able and willing to give informed consent.

Exclusion

  • Unable to understand and speak Danish
  • Non-cooperative
  • Chronic pain or acute pain the past week lasting more than 4 hours or pain on the day of investigation
  • Pain medication within the last week
  • Medication within the last week that can affect assessment
  • Psychiatric or neurological disease and diseases that may affect the assessment
  • Sensory disturbances
  • History or symptoms of significant diseases (e.g. psychiatric or neurological disease, diseases that may affect the assessment, sensory disturbances, cancer, diabetes mellitus, liver diseases, kidney diseases, cardiovascular diseases)
  • Pregnancy or lactation
  • Jetlag or sleep deprivation
  • Alcohol or drug abuse
  • Consumption of cannabis the last 4 weeks and consumption of alcohol in the last 48 hours
  • Any abnormality of the skin or of vascular origin at application site
  • History of hypersensitivity to lidocaine, other amide-type anesthetics, or other contents of the lidocaine or vehicle

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

March 1 2021

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ESTIMATED

End Date :

February 28 2022

Estimated Enrollment :

60 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT04865185

Start Date

March 1 2021

End Date

February 28 2022

Last Update

April 29 2021

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Danish Pain Research Center, Aarhus University, Aarhus University Hospital

Aarhus N, Denmark, 8200