Australian-New Zealand Clinical Trial: TOPAS: TOPicAl non-Steroidal anti-inflammatory drug + self-care advice with heat pack vs self-care advice with heat pack alone on severity of acute low back and neck pain

Australia, Oct. 14 -- The Australian New Zealand Clinical Trials Registry (ANZCTR) received information related to the study titled ‘TOPAS: TOPicAl non-Steroidal anti-inflammatory drug + self-care advice with heat pack vs self-care advice with heat pack alone on severity of acute low back and neck pain’. The following are the other relevant details related to the trial:

Trial ID: 392623

Submit Date: 9/7/26 15:09

Study Type: Interventional

Intervention: Participants will be randomised 1:1 to either the topical group (14 days’ worth of topical - diclofenac gel 11.6 grams (~2 grams or 1 teaspoon) applied 4 times per day) + self-management, or self-management alone. Drug use will be assessed by patient report by using a pain and medicine us...