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Study on the Role of Decompression of Lower Extremity Nerves for the Treatment of Patients With Symptomatic Diabetic Neuropathy With Chronic Nerve Compression

NCT00703209 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 138

Last updated 2015-05-28

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas would like to give you information about a research study that is being done for patients with painful diabetic neuropathy and have not responded to medical treatment. Doctors from the departments of Internal Medicine, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Neurology, Pain Management and Plastic Surgery are conducting a research study to examine the effects of nerve decompression on decreasing the pain associated with diabetic neuropathy and increasing the sensation at the bottom of the foot.

Conditions

  • Painful Diabetic Neuropathy

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Nerve Decompression

Nerve decompression on a randomized leg, with similar skin incisions on the opposite leg so that the patient is "blinded" to which leg received the decompression.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Shai M Rozen, MD · UT Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
80 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2008-01-31
Primary Completion
2013-09-30
Completion
2013-09-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Read the full study record

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