TDCS* and Laterality Trainnning in Patients With Chronic Neck Pain
Unknown statusNot applicableNCT06204627
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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)
Chronic neck pain leads to decreased quality of life and absenteeism at work, generating great personal and socio-economic impact. It has been shown that patients with chronic pain have late recognition of the laterality of the hand, which is related to the duration of symptoms and pain evoked by the execution of the movement. These findings suggest that chronic pain and the consequent disuse of certain motor functions may involve a reorganization of the cortical representation of the body scheme or motor planning. Non-invasive neuromodulation, such as transcranial direct current stimulation (TDCS), allows modulating cortical excitability and promoting pain relief. This study intends to verify the effects of the association of noninvasive brain stimulation with TDCS with an intervention with visual and motor stimuli related to laterality in patients with neck pain.
Study details
- Official title
- Effects of Transcranial Stimulation by Direct Current Associated With Laterality Trainnning in Patients With Chronic Neck Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Device: TDCS
- Device: Recognize (hand) - Laterality
- Other: Sham TDCS
- Other: Landscape recognition
- Sponsor
- University of Sao Paulo General Hospital
- Start date
- 2023-09-30
- Primary completion
- 2024-08-30
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 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: * participants over 18 years old; * pain in the cervical region, lasting more than three months and with intensity greater than 40/100 on the visual analog scale Exclusion Criteria: * history of seizures or epilepsy, * history of head trauma, * intracranial hypertension, * intracranial metal clip, * pregnant or breastfeeding women, * skin lesions at the current application site; * changes in sensitivity and allergy in the electrode positioning region. * intermittent pain; * Cancer; * cardiac pacemaker; * severe spinal diseases, such as recent fractures or ankylosing spondylitis; * serious cardiorespiratory diseases; * participants who refuse to sign the Free and Informed Consent Form.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06204627