Comparison of the Efficacy of rTMS and tDCS of the Motor Cortex in Patients With Chronic Neuropathic Pain
CompletedPhase 4NCT02030626
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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 present study aims to compare directly the efficacy of two noninvasive neurostimulation techniques : repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation and transcranial direct electrical current of the motor cortex in patients with chronic lumbar radiculopathy on pain intensity.
Study details
- Official title
- Comparison of the Efficacy of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation of the Motor Cortex in Patients With Neuropathic Pain Due to Chronic Radiculopathy
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Device: active or placebo rTMS or active or placebo tDCS
- Sponsor
- Hospital Ambroise Paré Paris
- Start date
- 2013-01
- Primary completion
- 2015-01
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 60 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- France
- Total sites listed
- 2
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: Patients aged more than 18 years and less than 60 years, males of females Lumbosciatica or lumbocruralgia with predominant neuropathic components with DN4 score ≥ 4/10 Chronic pain with an intensity of at least 4/10 Stable analgesic treatment for at least 15 days before inclusion Able to speak and understand French Social security Exclusion Criteria: Work accident or litigation Contraindication to rTMS (sismotherapy in the preceding month, epilepsia, past head trauma, intracranial hypertension, metallic clip, pace maker, pregnancy or lactation Major depressive episode Intermittent pain Consent refusal Impossible to follow up during the duration of the study Pain more severe than neuropathic pain
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02030626