Efficacy of Resistive Capacitive Monopolar Radiofrequency in the Physiotherapeutic Treatment of Chronic Pelvic Pain: RCT
CompletedNot applicableNCT03797911
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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)
This study evaluates if the application of resistive capacitive monopolar radiofrequency therapy associated with physiotherapeutic techniques and pain education provides benefits with respect to physiotherapy and pain education techniques alone in the management of patients with chronic pelvic pain.
Study details
- Official title
- Efficacy of Resistive Capacitive Monopolar Radiofrequency in the Physiotherapeutic Treatment of Chronic Pelvic Pain: Randomized Clinical Trial.
- Conditions
- Pelvic Pain
- Pelvic Pain Syndrome
- Chronic Pain
- Chronic Pain Syndrome
- Chronic Pelvic Inflammatory Disease
- Physical Therapy
- Interventions
- Combination product: Active resistive capacitive monopolar radiofrequency with physiotherapeutic techniques and pain education
- Combination product: Inactive resistive capacitive monopolar radiofrequency with physiotherapeutic techniques and pain education
- Sponsor
- RAPbarcelona
- Start date
- 2019-03-23
- Primary completion
- 2021-04-16
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 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: * Have an age equal to or greater than 18 years * Having chronic pelvic pain of six or more months of evolution. Exclusion Criteria: * Failure to grant informed consent. * Have fibromyalgia. * Present a pacemaker or other type of electronic implant. * Suffer systemic diseases (infectious, vascular, endocrine, metabolic or neoplastic conditions). * Previous treatment with chemotherapy and / or radiotherapy in the pelvic area. * Suffering from neuromuscular diseases (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis, myasthenia gravis or spinal muscular atrophy). * Have myelopathy and osteomyelitis. * Have neurological and / or metabolic pathology that alters the response capacity: diabetes, parkinson's disease, senile dementia ... * Have an alteration of the central nervous system (traumatic or spinal vascular injury) * Suffer oncological processes with sacral involvement. * Have a severe mental disorder. * Have vulvodynia * Be pregnant. * Have undergone surgery in the last 3 months in the pelvic area. * Have hypersensitivity of the skin, hyposensitivity and / or rejection of manual contact. * Inability to correctly complete the questionnaires or understand the study protocol. * Having initiated other pelvic physiotherapy treatments during the study intervention.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03797911