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Pain: full-pipeline trial registry

106 of 377 indexed Pain trials are currently recruiting.

Corpus placement: #16 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

377 US clinical trials · 106 currently recruiting · #16 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Pain: 377 US clinical trials tracked, 106 recruiting.

Pain is the subject of 377 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 106 of them currently open to new participants. 73 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 79 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is University of Florida, running 9 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition pain

OPEN 106 | RECR 28% | LATE 73 | EARLY 79 | RANK #16 | SPON 9

Nearest open-share peer: Astigmatism (28% recruiting · 32 trials)

Colorectal Cancer41.1%Heart Failure41.1%Anxiety40.3%Pain (this)28%Asthma18.5%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Pain

Pain lists 106 open slots (28% of 377 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 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 is recruiting below its size-band peers.

    106 of 377 indexed trials (28.1%) are open to enrollment, against a 37.1% average across 139 conditions with 100+ trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.

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

    University of Florida accounts for 9 of 377 trials (2.4%). 214 distinct sponsors appear on at least one study for this condition label.

  3. Typical Pain enrolment sits around 84 participants.

    Median target enrolment is 84 among the 375 trials that report a genuine target (sentinel values excluded). 201 of those (53.6%) plan for fewer than 100 participants.

  4. Pain research is mostly interventional.

    319 interventional and 58 observational studies make up this index (84.6% interventional). Study type is sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov.

Phase 140Phase 239Phase 336Phase 437

Open and recent trials

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RECRUITING NA 115 participants

Training in Evidence-based Treatments in Psycho-Oncology

Massachusetts General Hospital

NCT05674357

RECRUITING 110 participants

Can Medical Cannabis Affect Opioid Use?

Thomas Jefferson University

NCT06206252

RECRUITING Phase 2 108 participants

Pain After Buffered Vs Non Buffered Articaine

Cleveland Dental Institute

NCT06538233

RECRUITING NA 106 participants

Music Use in Parturients Admitted to Labor & Delivery

Tufts Medical Center

NCT06969105

RECRUITING Phase 1 103 participants

Age-dependent Effects of Smoked and Oral Delta-9-THC

University of California, Los Angeles

NCT05865470

RECRUITING NA 102 participants

ESPBs vs TAPs for Satisfactory Analgesia Following DIEP Surgery

University of Kansas Medical Center

NCT06091241

RECRUITING NA 100 participants

TENS Analgesia During Outpatient Urethral Bulking for Stress Urinary Incontinence.

University of Rochester

NCT06369922

RECRUITING NA 100 participants

Chronic Pain Diagnosis and Treatment in Torture Survivors

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

NCT04629963

RECRUITING NA 100 participants

Two Post-Operative Pain Protocols at Discharge for Orthopaedic Patients

Massachusetts General Hospital

NCT07265557

RECRUITING 100 participants

Pain Perception Measurement by EEG and NRS

Cleveland Dental Institute

NCT06510244

RECRUITING NA 100 participants

A Primary Care-Based Psychosocial Intervention To Improve Cognitive & Depression Outcomes in Older Adults With MCI & Early Stage AD

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

NCT05081596

RECRUITING Phase 4 90 participants

Regional Blocks for Lateral Condyle Fractures

University of California, Los Angeles

NCT03796572

RECRUITING NA 86 participants

Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation for Pain Mitigation During Intrauterine Device Placement

Medical University of South Carolina

NCT06991075

RECRUITING NA 84 participants

Postoperative Pain After Activation of Irrigant

Cleveland Dental Institute

NCT06528574

RECRUITING 80 participants

Reliability of Pupil Response to Acute Pain

Wake Forest University Health Sciences

NCT02628314

RECRUITING NA 80 participants

Therapy Dog Visits for Patients Hospitalized With Traumatic Injuries

Boston Medical Center

NCT06812247

RECRUITING Phase 1 80 participants

Phase 1 Study of SBS-147 in Healthy Adults

Sparian Biosciences

NCT07335913

RECRUITING NA 80 participants

Study of Low-intensity Focused Ultrasound Effects on Heat Evoked fMRI Signals

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

NCT05303415

RECRUITING Phase 3 80 participants

Opioid-Free Orthopaedics

Emory University

NCT04659317

RECRUITING NA 80 participants

Brief Mindfulness Intervention for Pain Before an In-clinic Orthopedic Procedure

Florida State University

NCT06471075

RECRUITING NA 80 participants

The Role of Virtual Reality During Regional Anesthesia

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

NCT04163809

RECRUITING NA 78 participants

Neural Mechanisms of Immersive Virtual Reality in Chronic Pain (VR TMD EEG)

University of Maryland, Baltimore

NCT06214923

RECRUITING Phase 1 70 participants

Discovery and Analytical Validation of Inflammatory Bio-signatures of the Human Pain Experience

Alan Prossin

NCT05074485

RECRUITING NA 60 participants

Pain With Dementia

Duke University

NCT06854718

RECRUITING Early Phase 1 60 participants

Remimazolam NeuroImaging

Keith M Vogt

NCT07290205

RECRUITING Early Phase 1 60 participants

Nitrous Oxide Neuroimaging

Keith M Vogt

NCT06702631

RECRUITING Phase 4 60 participants

Optimizing Perioperative Analgesia to Lower Pain Following Cleft Palate Surgery

Duke University

NCT06962306

RECRUITING NA 60 participants

Spatiotemporal Thalamocortical Alterations Underlie Experimental and Chronic Pain

The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston

NCT06968689

RECRUITING Early Phase 1 60 participants

Ketamine and Propofol NeuroImaging

Keith M Vogt

NCT07294092

RECRUITING Phase 3 60 participants

Post-Op Pain Control for Prophylactic Intramedullary Nailing.

St. Louis University

NCT03823534

RECRUITING NA 60 participants

Integrating Pain-CBT Into an mHealth Analgesic Support Intervention for Patients With Chronic Pain From Advanced Cancers

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

NCT06722014

RECRUITING NA 58 participants

Opioid Sparing Anesthesia Care for Pediatric Patients Having Tonsil Surgery

Boston Children's Hospital

NCT06326983

RECRUITING Phase 1 50 participants

Ketamine Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics for Postpartum Depression and Pain After Cesarean Delivery

Grace Lim, MD, MS

NCT06767566

RECRUITING NA 50 participants

Virtual Reality for Pain Management in Burn Patients

Weill Medical College of Cornell University

NCT04685486

RECRUITING Phase 2 50 participants

Scrambler Therapy With Duloxetine-based Usual Care vs Duloxetine-based Usual Care for Chemotherapy-induced Peripheral Neuropathy.

Fox Chase Cancer Center

NCT06914557

RECRUITING Phase 4 50 participants

Optimizing Pain Control in Transurethral Resection of the Prostate

Benaroya Research Institute

NCT04102566

RECRUITING Early Phase 1 45 participants

Opioid-Sparing and Pain-Reducing Properties of Syntocinon: A Dose-Effect Determination

University of Florida

NCT04218409

RECRUITING Early Phase 1 45 participants

The Potential of Oxytocin to Reduce Opioid Abuse Liability and Pain Among Older Adults

University of Florida

NCT05761860

RECRUITING NA 45 participants

Transdiagnostic Cognitive Biomarkers

University of Minnesota

NCT04864080

RECRUITING NA 42 participants

Pain Intervention With Needling: Pilot Of Integrated Neuromodulation Techniques

The University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston

NCT07112404

RECRUITING NA 40 participants

Trans-arterial Embolization for the Treatment of Facet Pain Due to Facet Arthropathy

Northwell Health

NCT06965452

RECRUITING NA 40 participants

Association Between Body Composition and Pain in Spinal Cord Injury

University of Miami

NCT05459207

RECRUITING NA 40 participants

Exploring the Acute and Dynamic Relationships Between Movement and Pain in Older Adults With Musculoskeletal Pain

Indiana University

NCT06886906

RECRUITING Early Phase 1 36 participants

Effects of Dronabinol in Opioid Maintained Patients

Yale University

NCT04025359

RECRUITING NA 34 participants

Pain and Split-belt Motor Learning in Older Adults

University of Delaware

NCT07054840

RECRUITING NA 32 participants

Contrast and Anesthetic Level With Lumbar Erector Spinae Plan (ESP) Block

University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center

NCT07174440

RECRUITING Phase 1 30 participants

THC and CBD: A Controlled Human Study Probing a Harm Reduction Strategy

University of California, Los Angeles

NCT06859710

RECRUITING NA 30 participants

The Influence of Sleep on Cardiovascular Outcomes

Oregon Health and Science University

NCT06535178

RECRUITING Phase 1 30 participants

High Potency Cannabis: Acute and Protracted Effects

University of California, Los Angeles

NCT06859723

RECRUITING NA 25 participants

Augmented Reality For MRI-Guided Interventions

Children's National Research Institute

NCT06224933

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Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 1 40
Phase 2 39
Phase 3 36
Phase 4 37

Named interventions

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

Placebo Drug
29 trials
placebo Drug
7 trials
questionnaire administration Other
6 trials
Morphine Drug
5 trials
Hydromorphone Drug
4 trials
placebo Other
4 trials
Lidocaine Drug
4 trials
Ketorolac Drug
4 trials

US sites by state

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

California 71 trials
New York 50 trials
Florida 33 trials
Texas 28 trials
North Carolina 28 trials
Maryland 26 trials
Illinois 25 trials
Utah 23 trials

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

What to do with this Pain page

377 registered trials, 106 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 condition card totals 377 registered trials; most-linked intervention Placebo; top US site state California. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.