Study of RTMS Analgesic Effect in Chronic Neuropathic Pain,
RecruitingNot applicableNCT04936646
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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 purpose of this study is to compare the analgesic effectiveness of three modes of repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) in chronic neuropathic pain: * Classical rTMS stimulation * Deeper rTMS stimulation * Sham rTMS stimulation
Study details
- Official title
- Randomized Double-blind Study of RTMS Analgesic Effect in Chronic Neuropathic Pain. Comparison Between Three Groups: Motor Cortex Stimulation by the Classic Coil B65, Deeper Stimulation by the Coil B70 and Placebo Stimulation. Analysis of Long-term RTMS-induced Brain Changes Using FMRI.
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Device: RepetitiveTranscranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS)
- Sponsor
- University Hospital, Grenoble
- Start date
- 2021-07-16
- Primary completion
- 2025-10-01
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 80 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- France
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Patient's written consent * Affiliated with social security system * Male or female, suffering for more than a year from unilateral refractory neuropathic pain: hemi-body, upper limb, lower limb and facial chronic pain. * Patient whose analgesic treatment, is stable for at least 1 month. * Patient not responding to conventional treatments * Prescreening EVN \>3 Exclusion Criteria: * History of drug addiction, epilepsy, cranial trauma * History of psychiatric disorder * Patients previously treated with rTMS * Patient with intracranial ferromagnetic material or implanted stimulator * New treatment for less than one month * Pregnant or Breastfeeding woman * Patient who does not understand the study protocol * Persons who are protected under the act.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04936646