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Pain Management: later-stage trial registry

13 of 32 indexed Pain Management trials are currently recruiting, with more weight in Phase 3-4.

Corpus placement: #477 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

32 US clinical trials · 13 currently recruiting · #477 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Pain Management: 32 US clinical trials tracked, 13 recruiting.

Pain Management is the subject of 32 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 13 of them currently open to new participants. 9 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 5 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is Pacira Pharmaceuticals, running 3 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition pain-management

OPEN 13 | RECR 41% | LATE 9 | EARLY 5 | RANK #477 | SPON 3

Nearest open-share peer: Pain, Acute (41% recruiting · 32 trials)

Acute Respiratory Distress S43.8%Pain Management (this)41%Cardiac Arrest37.5%Astigmatism28.1%Cardiovascular Risk Factor21.9%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Pain Management

Pain Management lists 13 open slots (41% of 32 indexed trials). Peers are matched on registered volume, not therapeutic-area browse lists. How peer matching works →

Key findings

What ClinicalTrials.gov does not surface for Pain Management on its own pages , computed from the registry mirror as of 2026-08-08. Each line carries its own denominator so it can be quoted as it stands.

  1. Pain Management recruits in line with its size-band peers.

    13 of 32 indexed trials (40.6%) are open to enrollment, against a 39.7% average across 762 conditions with 20-99 trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.

  2. Sponsorship of Pain Management trials is spread across many organizations.

    Pacira Pharmaceuticals accounts for 3 of 32 trials (9.4%). 26 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.

  3. Typical Pain Management enrolment sits around 105 participants.

    Median target enrolment is 105 among the 32 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 14 of those (43.8%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.

  4. Pain Management research is mostly interventional.

    31 interventional and 1 observational studies make up this index (96.9% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Phase 12Phase 23Phase 36Phase 43

Open and recent trials

32 total, page 1 of 1

RECRUITING NA 400 participants

Does Patient Testimonial Improve the Pain Relief Derived From a Brief Intervention

Florida State University

NCT07335159

RECRUITING 220 participants

Assessment of Morbidity and Mortality Following Serratus Anterior Plane Block (SAPB) for Unilateral Rib Fractures

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

NCT07032766

RECRUITING Phase 3 210 participants

Suzetrigine in Total Hip Arthroplasty

Hospital for Special Surgery, New York

NCT07226700

RECRUITING Phase 3 170 participants

R.E.C.K vs Exparel in Robotic Nephrectomy

Wake Forest University Health Sciences

NCT07092566

RECRUITING Phase 4 130 participants

The Effect of Multimodal Pain Regimen on Use of Narcotics After Rotator Cuff Tear Repair

Montefiore Medical Center

NCT07076069

RECRUITING Phase 2 120 participants

Sub-dissociative Dose Ketamine in Treatment of Vaso-occlusive Pain Event in Children and Young Adults

Mohsen Saidinejad

NCT07369024

RECRUITING NA 100 participants

Post-Operative Analgesic Selection in Patients Planned for Third Molar Extraction After Undergoing Shared Decision Making Using 2- Versus 3-Option Decision-Aids

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

NCT07011472

RECRUITING Phase 4 90 participants

Efficacy of Methylprednisolone for Pain Control After ACL Repair

St. Louis University

NCT07158476

RECRUITING Phase 2 70 participants

Local Anesthesia for Facial Fractures

Washington University School of Medicine

NCT06429501

RECRUITING NA 60 participants

E-Tailored Pain Management Support for Dementia Family Caregivers: Feasibility of the PACE-app

University of Iowa

NCT07032350

RECRUITING NA 25 participants

mHealth Intervention for Pain Self Management

Virginia Commonwealth University

NCT07332377

RECRUITING Phase 2 15 participants

Psilocybin in Cancer Pain Study

Yvan Beaussant, MD, MSci

NCT06001749

RECRUITING NA 10 participants

Sensory Spinal Cord Stimulation

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

NCT07095036

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 3 360 participants

Tramadol Versus Placebo and Morphine in the Management of Post-Operative Pain Abdominoplasty

Avenue Therapeutics

NCT03774836

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 360 participants

PEACE: Comparing Chronic Pain Treatment Options

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

NCT02979574

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING Phase 3 231 participants

Patient Controlled Epidural Analgesia Versus Intravenous Patient Controlled Analgesia for Post-Operative Pain Control in Patients Undergoing Elective Liver Resection

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

NCT02523443

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 140 participants

COMmunity of Practice And Safety Support for Navigating Pain (COMPASS-NP)

Oregon Health and Science University

NCT05492903

ACTIVE NOT RECRUITING NA 15 participants

Wearable Focused Ultrasound Stimulation for Peripheral Nerve Pain Management

University of Texas at Austin

NCT07160049

COMPLETED NA 511 participants

Opioid-Free Orthopaedic Surgery

OrthoCarolina Research Institute

NCT04176783

COMPLETED NA 422 participants

The Alabama NSAIDs Patient Safety Survey, Phase II: Reducing Disparities in Risk Awareness and Communication

University of Alabama at Birmingham

NCT01352832

COMPLETED Phase 3 409 participants

Tramadol Versus Placebo in the Management of Postoperative Pain Following Bunionectomy

Avenue Therapeutics

NCT03290378

COMPLETED Phase 4 167 participants

Efficacy and Safety of EXPAREL Versus Standard of Care (SoC) in Subjects Undergoing Elective Cesarean Section

Pacira Pharmaceuticals

NCT03853694

COMPLETED Phase 3 167 participants

Phase 3 Adductor Canal Block With EXPAREL in Subjects Undergoing Primary Unilateral Total Knee Arthroplasty

Pacira Pharmaceuticals

NCT05139030

COMPLETED NA 105 participants

Post-partum Non-pharmacologic Pain Management

Wright State University

NCT03903172

COMPLETED NA 100 participants

Effectiveness of External Vibration for Pain Relief During Intravenous Access in Adult Patients

Kyle Stein

NCT03619135

COMPLETED NA 74 participants

Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) for Pain Control During Cervical Dilator Placement Prior to Dilation and Evacuation

Ashley Turner, MD

NCT03868787

COMPLETED NA 55 participants

Can Single-Injection Adductor Canal Blocks Improve PostOp Pain Relief in Patients Undergoing Total Knee Arthroplasty?

University of California, Irvine

NCT02276495

COMPLETED Phase 1 15 participants

PK Study of EXPAREL in Subjects Undergoing Open Spinal Fusion or Reconstructive Surgery

Pacira Pharmaceuticals

NCT02985762

COMPLETED Early Phase 1 15 participants

Erector Spinae Regional Anesthesia for Pain Control

The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

NCT05794828

COMPLETED NA 15 participants

A Non-invasive Intervention (BreEStim) for Management of Phantom Limb Pain (PLP) After Limb Amputation (Experiment 1)

The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

NCT04750525

COMPLETED NA 12 participants

Combined Peripheral (BreEStim) and Central Electrical Stimulation (tDCS) for Neuropathic Pain Management - Spinal Cord Injury

The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

NCT03302793

COMPLETED NA 6 participants

BreEStim and tDCS for Neuropathic Pain Management - Healthy Subjects

The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

NCT03302780

Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 1 2
Phase 2 3
Phase 3 6
Phase 4 3

Named interventions

Most-linked intervention names on Pain Management records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.

Placebo Other
4 trials
BreEStim Device
3 trials
tDCS sham Device
2 trials
Tramadol Drug
2 trials
EStim Device
1 trials
tDCS active Device
1 trials
Interactive DVD Other
1 trials
Local infiltration - 100 mLs of a solution containing: Ropivacaine + Epinephrine + Ketorolac + Clonidine + 0.9% Normal saline Drug
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Pain Management trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

Texas 9 trials
New York 6 trials
California 6 trials
Ohio 4 trials
New Jersey 4 trials
North Carolina 4 trials
Pennsylvania 3 trials
Florida 3 trials

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine. Data is informational only.

What to do with this Pain Management page

32 registered trials, 13 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.

Trial and recruiting counts reflect ClinicalTrials.gov registry status as of the data vintage above; individual trial eligibility and enrollment status can change.

Every figure on PlainTrial is rendered directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, no number is typed in by an editor. This Pain Management condition card totals 32 registered trials; most-linked intervention Placebo; top US site state Texas. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.