Effects of Low Versus High Frequency Percutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation on Chronic Neck Pain Patients.
CompletedNot applicableNCT03401905
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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)
Comparison between high and low frequency percutaneous electrical nerve stimulation as treatment of myofascial chronic neck pain. The main hypothesis is that low frequency treatment will have more hypoalgesic effects than high frequency, and low frequency effects will last longer.
Study details
- Official title
- Comparison and Effects of Low and High Frequency Percutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation on Myofascial Chronic Neck Pain Patients.
- Interventions
- Procedure: Low frequency
- Procedure: High frequency
- Sponsor
- Centro Universitario La Salle
- Start date
- 2018-02-09
- Primary completion
- 2018-04-09
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Spain
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Neck pain of more than 6 months of evolution. * Pain level of more than 30 millimeter on the VAS scale. * Active myofascial frigger points on upper trapezius muscle. Exclusion Criteria: * Upper limb radiculopathy. * Recent whiplash. * Cervicogenic dizziness. * Migraine. * Previous cervical surgery.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03401905