Effectiveness and Safety of tDCS for Pain

Pusan National University Yangsan Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain, Chronic

Treatments: Device: Sham Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation(sham tDCS); Device: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation(tDCS)

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05612165

03-2022-001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to verify the effectiveness and safety of transcranial direct current stimulation in patients with central post-stroke pain.

Enrollment: 23 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19 to 90 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Adults aged 19 to 90 years old
2. Those who have been diagnosed with first-time stroke through doctors' clinical observation and brain imaging diagnosis
3. A person whose stroke lesions are cortex or subcortex
4. A person who satisfies 'Mandatory criteria'
5. Those with cognitive ability to understand and follow the researcher's instructions
6. Those who voluntarily agree to participate in this clinical trial and signed the agreement

Exclusion criteria

1. Those who have a fracture or have undergone orthopedic surgery
2. In case of accompanying serious neurological diseases
3. In case of major psychiatric diseases such as major depression disorders, schizophrenia, bipolar disorders, and dementia
4. Those with complex part pain syndrome by Budapest Criteria
5. If there is a cause of other pain in the relevant area, such as peripheral nerve damage
6. Persons included in the exclusion of transcranial direct current stimulation
7. If the researcher is judged to be judged that the participation in this study is not appropriate

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Triple Blind

---

23 participants in 2 patient groups

tDCS group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation(tDCS)

Control group

Sham Comparator group

Treatment:

Device: Sham Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation(sham tDCS)