Effectiveness of of Therapeutic Currents in Clinical Dimension and Penetration Depth Dimension in Lower Back

Sheba Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Pain

Treatments: Device: Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02384785

SHEBA-12-9941-IGA-CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

Electrical stimulation therapy for pain reduction was performed already 2000 years ago. In recent years many studies had proved the effectiveness of electrical stimulation in pain management, tissue healing and muscle strengthening. Today there are devices with many types of currents. Each current comes with different statements for its effectiveness and its penetration depth yet there is no consensus on the most effective current in the dimension of penetration depth.

Full description

The study shall be recruited patients who underwent implantation of electrodes in the spine (Spinal Cord Stimulation- SCS). The electrode will serve as a voltage reader deep in the tissue. The voltage is generated from electrodes applied on the skin and delivers therapeutic currents to the patients back. The study will be tested 4 different types of currents and number of electrode placement.

Enrollment: 25 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Normal cognitive status.
• language comprehension (understanding and speaking)a way that allows voluntary cooperation in research and compliance with the testing.

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnant women.
• neurological pathologies (such as -head injury) or other systemic diseases that affect the sensation (such as diabetes).
• Each participant which at any stage in research expresses his wish to resign.

Trial design

25 participants in 1 patient group

Spinal Cord Stimulation

Description:

Patients who underwent implantation of electrodes spine for treatment in chronic pain. 'Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation' and "Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation" (one after another)

Treatment:

Device: Transcutaneous Electric Nerve Stimulation