Study to Demonstrate That Muscle Pattern Recognition (MPR) is an Effective Evaluation Tool for Musculoskeletal Neck or Back Pain
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Official title
Multi-Center, Multi-National Study to Demonstrate That Muscle Pattern Recognition is a Reliable and Valid Evaluation Tool for Patients Who Present With Acute, Sub-Acute, or Chronic Symptoms of Neck or Back Pain of a Musculoskeletal Origin
Brief summary
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The investigators hypothesize that non able-bodied participants with reported acute, sub-acute, or chronic symptoms of neck or back pain of a musculoskeletal origin will have magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), X-ray and blood parameters that do not demonstrate a statistical difference between "normal" (able-bodied) volunteers. Muscle pattern recognition (MPR) testing will show statistically different results between these groups. This statistically significant finding in MPR results will enhance a clinician's determination of clinical normality or abnormality. If this hypothesis is demonstrated, the MPR modality will be the first quantitative tool developed for assisting in the diagnosis of the presence or absence of a musculoskeletal dysfunction in a patient population. The availability of such an evaluation tool to a healthcare provider for patients with soft tissue, non-surgical neck or back complaints will substantially improve the accuracy of diagnosis and case management decisions.
Study identification
- NCT ID
- NCT00134225
- Recruitment status
- Not listed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Enrollment
- 480 participants
Conditions and interventions
Conditions
Eligibility (public fields only)
- Age range
- 18 Years to 62 Years
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Accepts healthy volunteers
This page does not interpret eligibility. Detailed inclusion and exclusion criteria are on the official ClinicalTrials.gov record.
Study timeline
- Start date
- Mar 31, 2005
- Primary completion
- Not listed
- Completion
- Nov 30, 2006
- Last update posted
- Oct 25, 2005
2005 – 2006
United States locations
- U.S. sites
- 3
- U.S. states
- 3
- U.S. cities
- 3
| Facility | City | State | ZIP | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Department of Neurology - UC Irvine | Irvine | California | 92697-4275 | Not yet recruiting |
| Midwest Consultants for Clinical Trials LLC | Portage | Michigan | 49002 | Recruiting |
| Advance Clinical Research | Salt Lake City | Utah | 84102 | Not yet recruiting |
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Non-U.S. locations
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- Public field values for ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00134225, including study identification, conditions, interventions, eligibility (age, sex, healthy volunteer), timeline, and U.S. site list.
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- Last update posted Oct 25, 2005 · Synced Sep 3, 2026
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