Noninvasive Brain Stimulation for Pain Relief
Unknown statusNot applicableNCT04283643
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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)
Non-invasive brain stimulation techniques, transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) and transcranial focused ultrasound (FUS), is be applied to healthy human subjects, acute pain patients, and chronic pain patients to investigate their uses for pain relief.
Study details
- Official title
- Noninvasive Brain Stimulation for Pain Relief
- Conditions
- Pain, Acute
- Pain, Chronic
- Pain, Experimental
- Interventions
- Other: Transcranial Focused Ultrasound
- Other: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
- Sponsor
- University of Virginia
- Start date
- 2019-04-01
- Primary completion
- 2021-04-01
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 80 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: * Healthy adults between 18 and 80 years of age. * Chronic and Acute pain patients: must have an MRI (for ultrasound targeting) Exclusion Criteria: * Direct report to the study team member * History of brain surgery * History of seizure * Pregnant * Have alcohol consumption exceeding 50 drinks/month * Have history of opioid abuse (all subjects), or any recent opioid use (healthy controls) * Have implant like pacemaker and aneurysm clip * Current of psychiatric disease such as anxiety or depression, which is not optimally treated * Current infection * Current wound on the skin of upper and lower extremities * Chronic pain patients: current chronic pain is not optimal controlled by pain medications (i.e. Pain VAS \>5)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04283643