Music may beat gas for needle jitters in back pain treatment
NCT ID NCT06928740
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tests whether listening to music through a special app (Music Care®) can calm anxiety as well as a gas mixture (EMONO) during a CT-guided injection for low back pain. The gas can cause nausea and dizziness, and the music app has no side effects. Researchers will compare anxiety levels in 128 patients to see if music is a good alternative.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- Music Care® digital music application
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could offer a simple, non-invasive way to reduce anxiety during medical procedures without the side effects of gas.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, early-stage study (128 people) testing if music is as good as gas, not better. Results may not apply to other procedures or settings.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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About 128 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Started
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Oct 2025
- Expected to finish
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Jun 2029
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
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18 years and older
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * The patient must have given their free and informed consent and signed the consent form * The patient must be a member or beneficiary of a health insurance plan * Patients with low back pain for whom scan-guided infiltration is indicated, whether at the foraminal level, posterior joints, pudendal, epidural, sacroiliac, or via the sacrococcygeal hiatus. * Patient with an anxiety score ≥ 35/100 based on the STAI-ETAT questionnaire Exclusion Criteria: * The subject is participating in another drug or category I interventional study, or is in a period of exclusion determined by a previous study * The subject refuses to sign the consent * It is impossible to give the subject informed information * The patient is under safeguard of justice or state guardianship * Indication for epidural injection * Patient who is deaf or hard of hearing * Contraindications to EMONO * Facial or head trauma making it impossible to wear a nasofacial mask or headphones
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Conditions
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The places running it
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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CHU de Nimes
RECRUITINGNîmes, France
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