Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and/or Neurofunctional Electrical Acupuncture in Myofascial Chronic Pain Patients
Unknown statusNot applicableNCT02381171
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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)
To evaluate the hypothesis: the effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic (rTMS) stimulation and/or peripheral stimulation (neurofunctional electrical acupuncture) treatments are more effective in pain relief than placebo-sham in patients with myofascial chronic pain.
Study details
- Official title
- Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and/or Neurofunctional Electrical Acupuncture in the Rehabilitation of Patients With Myofascial Chronic Pain
- Conditions
- Myofascial Pain Syndromes
- Interventions
- Device: Active rTMS
- Device: Sham rTMS
- Device: Active Neuroacupuncture
- Device: Sham Neuroacupuncture
- Sponsor
- Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre
- Collaborators
- Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul; Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital; Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior.
- Start date
- 2012-02
- Primary completion
- 2015-12
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 70 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: * Providing informed consent to participate in the study ; * 18 to 70 years old; * Myofascial pain in the cranial- cervical- mandibular complex, with duration more than 3 months; * In the last week, score higher or equal to 3cm (0 cm = 'no pain' and 10cm ='worst possible pain') on the VAS for pain perception at the baseline in the most part of seven days before; * 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). Exclusion Criteria: * Inflammatory chronic disease; * Neurological deficits; * History of substance abuse; * Neuropsychiatric co-morbidity; * Systemic diseases not well balance; * Habitual use of anti-inflammatory steroids; * Implanted devices for pain control, such as vagal or deep brain stimulators; * Contraindications to rTMS: metal in the head, implanted brain medical devices, previous convulsion or epilepsy, serious cranial trauma, audition problem, cochlear implant, neurostimulador implantable, spinal cord surgery, bypass valve ventriculoperitoneal peritonenal,cardiac pacemaker or other metal in the body; * Pregnancy; * Prior experience with acupuncture.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02381171