Active clinical trials for "Myalgia"

This study assesses the effect of molecular hydrogen inhalation in healthy males on muscle soreness, fatigue, oxidative stress, and inflammation following eccentric muscle contraction during downhill walking on the treadmill.

The primary purpose of the study is to assess the muscle contractility and sensitivity of lumbar erector spinae, biceps femoris, and gluteus maximus short-term response to Tabata kettlebell swing protocol.

The purpose of this study is to determine which method is most effective for teaching the kettlebell swing: verbal cueing, physical constraints, or a combination of the two.

Visits to the emergency department (ED) for chest pain are extremely common and require a safe, rapid and efficacious treatment algorithm to exclude a possible AMI. These diagnostic algorithms are partly based on an important laboratory value, which showed growing utility in the diagnostic and prognostic of many cardiovascular diseases in the last years : cardiac troponin. However, some patients with muscle disease often present with unexplained elevated high-sensitive cardiac Troponin T (hs-cTnT) levels in the absence of cardiac disease. The investigators aim at the characterization of the behaviour of this biomarker and its alternative (high-sensitive cardiac Troponin I), which will have important clinical implications on patients management.

This study evaluates beneficial effects of biofeedback therapy in reducing pain and increased tension of muscles occurring in patients with temporomandibular disorders (TMD). During the study Electromyography Biofeedback (EMG-Biofeedback)- assisted training lowering muscle tension will be used. The patients will undergo 4 or 8 meetings of EMG-Biofeedback - assisted training Than the patients will be reevaluated after 6 and 12 weeks.

The aim of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an aqueous solution containing CBD and CBN in the management of Facial Pain and Headache of Muscular Origin. A randomized (block randomization), double-blind, two-arm controlled trial will involve 42 adult patients diagnosed with Facial Pain and Headache of Muscular Origin which is lasting more than 3 months on the basis of clinical examination. Qualified study participants will be randomly assigned to two groups. The studied group will receive tan aqueous solution containing CBD and CBN, to drink at home in the dose determined by the attending physician, while the control group will receive an aqueous solution of placebo, to drink at home in the dose determined by the attending physician during this time. Each subject will be tested on the qualification day (D0), on 20 days after D0 (D20), and then 40 (D40) and 60 (D60) days after the qualification day using electromyography (EMG), pressure pain threshold test (PPT), clinical examination and surveys.

This study will measure the effects of topical application of sweet marjoram essential oil + grapeseed oil with massage on uterine cramping/pain post-IUD insertion/placement. The intention is to conduct a pilot study that could give a first look at the data to determine whether this line of research is worth pursuing with more time, effort, and resources. The results of this pilot study will provide adequate data (e.g., variance estimates) needed for obtaining reasonably reliable sample size estimates if larger studies are warranted in the future.

Metabolic myopathies form a group of pathologies related to a deficit of muscle energy production (enzymatic deficit) by disorder of the metabolism of carbohydrates, lipids, purines, or mitochondrial involvement related to dysfunction of complex respiratory chain. Most often, the symptomatology may include signs of "muscular" calling with cramps, contractures or exercise myalgia, more or less associated with exercise intolerance with early fatigability and rhabdomyolysis. In practice, the clinical signs are not specific and not pathognomonic, or sometimes absent with only an isolated elevation of the CPK. The diagnosis of certainty is usually based on the realization of a muscle biopsy (invasive). Unfortunately, the performance of the biopsy (definitive diagnosis of myopathy) in front of myalgia is low, hence the interest of functional explorations upstream to better specify its indication. Given the considerable increase in muscle metabolism to physical effort, resting investigations may not uncover myo-metabolic deficit. The muscle enzymatic deficit, is therefore most often "silent" at rest and its highlighting requires to explore the patient with effort, asking him to perform an exercise test on cycloergometer and/or an isometric contraction of the forearm ('handgrip test'). Currently, only a few metabolites are dosed before and after exertion such as lactate, pyruvic acid and ammonium. Several studies in normal subjects showed the effect of physical exercise on the metabolomic signature of plasma. Our aim is to apply modern metabolomic techniques to plasma and urinary samples collected as part of the care pathway in patients referred to in the Department of Sports Medicine-Functional Explorations of the CHU in comparison with healthy volunteers).

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a very common but mysterious pain disorder characterized by chronic widespread muscular pain. Fatigue, anxiety and depression are common comorbidities. The syndrome is commonly associated with several symptoms, including fatigue, sleeping disturbance, cognitive impairment, and comorbid pain syndrome, especially irritable bowel symptoms and temporomandibular disease. Anxiety and depression are common psychiatric co-morbidies. Daily stress is believed to trigger or aggravate pain conditions. These symptoms can markedly affect patients' quality of life, and even lead to disability. So far, the etiology and pathogenesis are largely unknown, and diagnostic biomarkers and curative treatment remain to be developed. Recent technological advances enable scientists to explore mechanisms by genetic, transcriptomic, proteomic, and metabolomic researches. However, no definitive result has been concluded for clinical practice so far. In this study, the investigators use tailored questionnaires to evaluate fibromyalgia and associated symptoms, including numeric rating scale for soreness, widespread soreness index, Fibromyalgia impact questionnaire, Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, and perceived stress scale. The investigators also use metabolomics and lipidomic approach to probe the potential pathophysiology of fibromyalgia. In our prior translation research (PMID: 32907805), the investigators found that excessive LPC16:0 resulting from lipid oxidization inflicts psychological stress-induced chronic non-inflammatory pain via activating ASIC3. In this content, our prior translational research identified a potential nociceptive ligand that causes fibromyalgia symptoms, which is likely to function as biomarkers for diagnosis or disease monitor. In the current clinical investigation, the investigators aim to reversely translate the novel findings in animal studies and validate the bio-significance of LPC16:0 for fibromyalgia with clinical approaches.

Succinylcholine is commonly used for neuromuscular relaxation for short procedures such as rigid bronchoscopy. A more modern alternative is the application aof rocuronium, reversed by sugammadex. The investigators compare the intubating conditions, incidence of postoperative myalgia (POM) as well as patient satisfaction for these two muscle relaxants.