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Nortriptyline in knee osteoarthritis (NortIKA Study): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial.
Trial report in Trials, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 5 citations in OpenAlex.
- Antidepressants for hip and knee osteoarthritis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Nortriptyline for pain in knee osteoarthritis: a double-blind randomised controlled trial in New Zealand general practice.The British journal of general practice : the journal of the Royal College of General Practitioners · 2021Trial
- Rationale and design of a multicenter randomized clinical trial of vestibulodynia: understanding pathophysiology and determining appropriate treatments (vestibulodynia: UPDATe).Annals of medicine · 2022Article
- Antidepressant and anticonvulsant prescription rates in patients with osteoarthritis: a population-based cohort study.Rheumatology (Oxford, England) · 2021Article
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8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
backgroundOsteoarthritis (OA) is a common cause of pain and disability. Currently available analgesics are often insufficiently effective or have unacceptable adverse effects. Tricyclic antidepressants may offer a useful centrally-acting analgesic. Nortriptyline is a readily-available, cheap and comparatively well-tolerated tricyclic antidepressant. METHODS/
designWe will conduct a parallel group, two-arm, participant and investigator-blinded, randomised controlled superiority trial comparing nortriptyline with placebo. Two hundred participants with primary knee OA will be enrolled. Participants will take study medication for 14 weeks. The primary outcome is difference between treatment arms in mean pain score measured on the Western Ontario and McMaster Universities (WOMAC) pain scale at 14 weeks. DISCUSSION: This protocol describes the first randomised controlled trial of a tricyclic antidepressant in the treatment of OA. The results of the study may have significant implications for the management of this common and painful condition.
trial registrationThe trial was registered with the Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry on 27 June 2014. The trial registration number is: ACTRN12614000683639 .
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