Application of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in Patients With Chronic Pain After Spinal Cord Injury
TerminatedNot applicableNCT01112774
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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 is to determine whether the novel treatment of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) could decrease the pain perception of those with spinal cord injury. We will also determine whether these changes are correlated with the clinical outcome (pain reduction).
Study details
- Official title
- Investigation of the Mechanisms of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation of Motor Cortex for the Treatment of Chronic Pain in Spinal Cord Injury
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Sponsor
- Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
- Start date
- 2010-04
- Primary completion
- 2013-08-14
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 64 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
STUDY ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA (similar to the criteria of the Interstitial Cystitis Network) 1. Providing informed consent to participate in the study 2. 18 to 64 years old 3. with traumatic spinal cord injury (complete or incomplete) - for instance, due to fall, car accident or gun shot; (for spinal cord injury only) 4. stable chronic pain for at least the three preceding months(for spinal cord injury only) 5. score higher or equal to 4cm (0 cm= 'no pain' and 10cm='worst possible pain') on the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) for pain perception at the baseline/start of the treatment(for spinal cord injury only) 6. refractoriness to drugs for pain relieve - such as tricyclic antidepressants, antiepileptic drugs and/or narcotics (pain resistant to at least 2 of these drugs supplied in adequate dosages for six months) (for spinal cord injury only) 7. pain is not attributable to other causes, such as peripheral inflammation. 8. No clinically significant or unstable medical or psychiatric disorder 9. No history of substance abuse 10. No neuropsychiatric comorbidity 11. No implanted devices for pain control, such as vagal or deep brain stimulators 12. No contraindications to tDCS: * metal in the head * implanted brain medical devices 13. No pregnancy 14. Eligible to MRI according to MRI screening checklist. 15. No use of ventilators
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01112774