Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation and Interferential Currents in Chronic Low Back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT01017913
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of the TENS and IFC in patients with non specific chronic low back pain.
Study details
- Official title
- Effects of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation (TENS) and Interferential Currents (IFC) in Patients With Non Specific Chronic Low Back Pain: Randomized Clinical Trial
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Other: TENS
- Other: Interferential currents
- Sponsor
- Federal University of São Paulo
- Collaborators
- Centro Universitario de Maringa
- Start date
- 2006-03
- Primary completion
- 2006-12
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Brazil
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Individuals who had had low back pain for less than three months Exclusion Criteria: * Individuals who were receiving treatment for their pain with another method at the same time, except for medicines; * Pregnant women; * Patients who had undergone vertebral column surgery (less than three months before the time of this study); * Individuals with contraindications against electrotherapy, such as skin lesions, abnormal sensitivity, infectious and blood diseases, heart pacemakers or inability to answer questionnaires; * Patients with fibromyalgia; * Individuals with psychiatric problems; * Individuals who refused to participate or were unwilling to follow a protocol lasting for two weeks.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01017913