Effect of Hypnosis Combined With Tdcs on Pain Perception and Cortical Excitability in Fibromyalgia
Unknown statusNot applicableNCT05066568
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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)
Fibromyalgia is a public health condition, which causes great functional disability. Conventional treatment modalities have been shown a very poor therapeutic response, in that most individuals end up becoming poly-medicated and refractory to treatment. Non-pharmacological techniques with promising effects on the syndrome symptoms include both hypnotic analgesia and the transcranial direct-current stimulation (tDCS). Giving the treatment limitations of this syndrome its important to better understand the pain processess in fibromyalgia and treatments effect. This project was developed in order to evaluate the synergistic effect of a hypnotic analgesia suggestion associated with tDCS over pain levels and cortical excitability in individuals with fibromyalgia over a nociceptive stimulation pattern.
Study details
- Official title
- Effect of Hypnosis Combined With Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Pain Perception and Cortical Excitability in Fibromyalgia: A Blinded Randomized Crossover Sham Controlled Clinical Trial
- Conditions
- Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
- Hypnosis
- Fibromyalgia
- Interventions
- Device: Active Tracranial Direct Current Stimulation
- Other: Hypnotic analgesia suggestion
- Behavioral: Rest
- Other: Active tDCS + Hypnotic analgesia suggestion
- Other: Sham tDCS + Hypnotic analgesia suggestion
- Sponsor
- Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre
- Start date
- 2020-07-02
- Primary completion
- 2021-10-30
- Sex
- Female
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Brazil
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Women * Literate * Fibromyalgia diagnosis according to 2016 American College of Rheumatology criteria * Pain score ≥ 6 in the Numerical Pain Scale during most of the time in the last 3 months. * Score ≥ 8 /12 in the Waterloo-Stanford Group Hypnotic Susceptibility Scale C Exclusion Criteria: * Contraindication to Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation * Metallic implant in brain * Medical implants in brain * Cardiac Pacemaker * Cochlear implant * History of drug or alcohol abuse in the last 6 months * Neurological disorders * History of head trauma or neurosurgery * Decompensated systemic diseases * Chronic inflammatory diseases (lupus, rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren syndrome, Reiter syndrome) * Decompensated hypothyroidism * History of cancer
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05066568