Electrical Stimulus Therapy for Chronic Phantom Limb Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT03030079
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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 goal of this pilot study is to assess the effectiveness of an electrical stimulation therapy option for the treatment of chronic phantom limb pain in upper or lower limb amputees. This therapy has been previously used for sports and joint injuries and is marketed for relaxation of muscle spasms, re-education of muscle action, prevention of disuse atrophy, increased local blood circulation, and maintaining or increasing range of motion. The investigators would like to explore the idea that physically exercising the muscles of the residual limb and increasing blood flow to the site of amputation through the promotion of motor contraction using electrical stimulation decreases chronic phantom limb pain.
Study details
- Official title
- Exploratory Study of Electrical Stimulus as a Treatment Option for Chronic Phantom Limb Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Device: Experimental Electrical Stimulation Regimen
- Sponsor
- University of Colorado, Denver
- Collaborators
- Hanger Clinic: Prosthetics & Orthotics
- Start date
- 2017-01-01
- Primary completion
- 2023-06-27
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 85 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)
Inclusion Criteria: * Self-identified adult volunteers with a limb deficiency with a well-healed site of amputation * Subjects experiencing at least a 4 out of 10 of chronic phantom limb pain based on a numeric 10-point pain scale. * Any ethnicity and gender * Age (18-85 years) * Able to understand and follow directions in English, assessed by their ability to respond during the recruitment and consent processes. Exclusion Criteria: * Subjects that are not able to understand the procedures and who are unable to come to the facility. * Any individual whose amputation site is not completely healed * Anyone with cardiac demand pacemakers and/or implanted defibrillator.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03030079