Scientists test fake shots to uncover truth about pain treatments
NCT ID NCT06668116
Summary
This study aimed to create a convincing fake anesthetic injection to improve future research on nerve blocks for pain. Researchers tested a diluted solution on 17 healthy volunteers to see if it could mimic the feeling of a real nerve block without providing pain relief. The goal is to enable better 'blinded' studies where no one knows who got the real treatment, leading to more reliable evidence about whether nerve blocks actually work.
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Balgrist University Hospital
Zurich, Canton of Zurich, 8008, Switzerland
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