# NUCYNTA (Tapentadol Immediate Release) Versus Oxycodone Immediate Release in the Treatment of Acute Low Back Pain

> **NCT00986180** · PHASE3 · COMPLETED · sponsor: **Ortho-McNeil Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC** · enrollment: 667 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Pain
- Back Pain
- Low Back Pain
- Back Pain With Radiation

## Interventions

- **DRUG:** NUCYNTA
- **DRUG:** Oxycodone IR

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT00986180
- **Lead sponsor:** Ortho-McNeil Janssen Scientific Affairs, LLC
- **Sponsor class:** INDUSTRY
- **Phase:** PHASE3
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Start date:** 2009-09
- **Primary completion:** 2010-12
- **Final completion:** 2010-12
- **Target enrollment:** 667 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2012-12-19

## Collaborators

- [object Object]

## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00986180

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT00986180, "NUCYNTA (Tapentadol Immediate Release) Versus Oxycodone Immediate Release in the Treatment of Acute Low Back Pain". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-08-18 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT00986180. Licensed CC0.

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