Assessment and Treatment Patients With Atypical Facial Pain Trough Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
CompletedNot applicableNCT01746355
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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)
Atypical Facial Pain is a chronic condition and presents controversies during diagnostic and treatment, between specialist not have consensus about the pathophysiology. It is possible consider this entitie a potential neuropathic cause without pathological signs. It knows the repetitive transcranial magnetic presents good results in the treatment of chronic pain coditions. The aim this study is evaluated the thresholds and excitability cortical in patients with AFP and verify the patterns of improvement in pain for patients undergoing rTMS compared to controls, as well as the therapeutic response to neuromodulation procedures. This enroll 20 patients with DAF and 20 controls treated with rTMS (5 sessions) and evaluated through questionnaires (EDOF clinical record, McGill Pain Questionnaire, Visual Analogue Scale, Inventory of symptoms of neuropathic pain, neuropathic pain DN4 questionnaire, SF -36, brief pain inventory). At the end of the data will be statistically analyzed and expressed as mean and standard deviation, and analyzed by Student's t test, analysis of variance (ANOVA), Tukey-Kramer and Pearson correlation. The level of significance is 5%. The results will be published in journals indexed in the area both nationally and internationally and presented at conferences and scientific meetings.
Study details
- Official title
- Assessment and Treatment Patients With Atypical Facial Pain Trough Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
- Conditions
- Atypical Facial Pain or Atypical Odontalgia
- Interventions
- Procedure: rTMS
- Sponsor
- University of Sao Paulo
- Start date
- 2011-03
- Primary completion
- 2012-12
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- 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: * Fulfill criteria of Atypical Facial Pain by International Headache Society * Signed Term of Informed Consent Exclusion Criteria: * Trauma of Skull, epilepsy don't treated, * Use of medications decrease the seizure threshold * Patients in use of drugs, how cocaine and alcohol * neurosurgical clips, pacemakers, increased intracranial pressure (risk of sequelae after seizure) * Pregnant or lacting women
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01746355