High-tone External Muscle Stimulation for Pain Reduction
CompletedNot applicableNCT02151565
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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)
Sciatica is a common pain problem that affects not only the patient but also constitutes a socioeconomic burden and thus affects the whole society. So far, current pharmacologic therapies are inadequate for many patients. Therefore, we evaluated application of high-tone external muscle stimulation (HTEMS) compared to transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) on radicular pain associated with sciatica.
Study details
- Official title
- High-tone External Muscle Stimulation for Treatment of Chronic Pain
- Conditions
- Chronic Radicular Back Pain
- Lumboischialgia
- Cervico Brachialgia
- Interventions
- Device: HTEMS
- Device: TENS
- Sponsor
- West German Center of Diabetes and Health
- Collaborators
- gbo Medizintechnik AG
- Start date
- 2012-11
- Primary completion
- 2013-11
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 99 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Germany
- Total sites listed
- 2
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * sciatica due to degenerative spine disorders * stable oral analgesic regimen Exclusion Criteria: * history of drug or alcohol abuse * cardiac pacemaker or defibrillator * pregnancy
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02151565