MyrliMax® and Low Back Pain: A Multicentric, Observational, Post-Marketing Surveillance Study in Indian Patients Suffering from Chronic Low Back Pain of Various Pain Intensity.

Chronic low back pain (LBP) is the most common musculoskeletal condition affecting a person's quality of life. Over the past decades, a lot of work was done in an attempt to reduce the negative impact of LBP, and help patients recover and maintain a better quality of life. Nevertheless, there is still a lot to be done to fully understand the problem of underlying chronic LBP and a wide gap that exist between basic science and applied rehabilitation research on LBP. This was an open label, multicentric, observational, post-marketing surveillance study in a real-world setup designed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of MyrliMax® capsules containing standardised Commiphora myrrha gum resin extract in Indian subjects with chronic LBP varying in intensity. This study included 204 subjects diagnosed with chronic LBP at the outpatient department of 20 centres under the supervision of a medical doctor. All subjects took MyrliMax® capsules twice daily for 20 days. Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) pain score, rescue medicine requirement, therapy satisfaction scores and safety parameters were assessed as per the schedule. Treatment with MyrliMax® capsules significantly (p<0.01) and progressively reduced the VAS score throughout treatment. A significant pain reduction was observed from the second visit. The mean VAS score was 6.58, 4.66, 2.99 and 1.88 on Day 0, Day 7, Day 14 and Day 20, respectively. A similar trend was also observed in subgroups based on gender and severity score. The need of rescue analgesics/NSAIDs was significantly reduced from the second week, indicating a potential of MyrliMax® capsules to increase the pain threshold. All physicians and patients were satisfied with the efficacy of MyrliMax® capsules assessed by physician's satisfaction score and patient's satisfaction score. There were no significant serious adverse events due to treatment during the study, which indicated that the treatment with MyrliMax® was well tolerated by subjects. MyrliMax® capsule is a potentially effective and safe therapy for pain reduction in patients suffering from chronic LBP. MyrliMax® capsules can be used to reduce pain in NSAIDs intolerant subjects suffering from chronic LBP.