Conditions: Neuropathic Pain
Keywords: post-traumatic peripheral neuropathic pain
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 542
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This study is designed to investigate if pregabalin is effective in treating neuropathic (nerve) pain resulting from peripheral nerve trauma due to a traumatic or surgical event such as, for example, motor vehicle accident, fall, sports injury, knee or hip replacement, hernia repair, thoracotomy, mastectomy, focal/localized burns or crush injury.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: None arm 2: None

Interventions: intervention 1: pregabalin intervention 2: placebo
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: capsules, 150-600 mg/day administered in divided doses twice a day for 15 weeks after randomization intervention 2: capsules, placebo for pregabalin administered in divided doses twice a day for 15 weeks after randomization

Protocol document: