Effect of Regular Electrotherapy in Patients With Chronic Non-specific Neck Pain and Low-back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT04968535
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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 randomized controlled double-blinded pilot trial was performed in the Medical University of Vienna, Department of Special Anesthesia and Pain Medicine between 2015 and 2018. Aim of the study was to assess the effect of regular electrotherapy applied on the spinal cord of patients with chronic non-specific neck pain and/or low-back pain. The hypothesis was that subjective feeling of pain, range of motion of the cervical and lumbar region, as well as the activity in daily living improved after weekly electrotherapy sessions for 30 min each.
Study details
- Official title
- Effect of Regular Electrotherapy in Patients With Chronic Non-specific Neck Pain and Low-back Pain: a Randomized Controlled Double-blinded Pilot Trial
- Conditions
- Chronic Low-back Pain
- Chronic Pain
- Back Pain Without Radiation
- Interventions
- Device: StimaWELL
- Sponsor
- Medical University of Vienna
- Start date
- 2015-01-08
- Primary completion
- 2018-10-16
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Austria
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Chronic neck pain and/or low back pain longer than 3 month * Minimum numeric pain rating scale equal or \> 5 Exclusion Criteria: * Change in pain medication within 4 weeks prior or during the enrollment (except intake of rescue medication) * Additional pain therapies within 4 weeks prior or during the enrollment * Epilepsy * Pregnancy * Previous experience in TENS * Cardiac arrythmia/previous cardiac operation/implanted cardiac devices * Infection or malignancies affecting the spinal cord/previous spine operation * Severe radicular pain with acute paralysis in the extremities * Ongoing pension application
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04968535