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Effects of Repetitive Electric Sensory Stimulation (RSS) as Intervention in Complex-regional-pain-syndrome Type I (CRPS)

R

Ruhr University of Bochum

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome Type I of the Upper Limb

Treatments

Device: SHAM-RSS
Device: RSS (repetitive sensory stimulation)

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01915329
RSS_2012

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to test a specific nerve stimulation protocol as therapeutic option in patients diagnosed with CRPS (complex regional pain syndrome) of the upper extremity.

Full description

A specific high frequency electric stimulation is conveyed at 5 days to the affected hand. Each stimulation session lasts 45 minutes.

Enrollment

50 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 75 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

  • Patients diagnosed with CRPS Type I

Exclusion criteria

  • intolerable hyperalgesia
  • lesions at the fingertips
  • high grade digit contracture
  • central neurologic disorders
  • psychiatric disorders

Trial design

Primary purpose

Basic Science

Allocation

Randomized

Interventional model

Parallel Assignment

Masking

Single Blind

50 participants in 2 patient groups

Verum-RSS
Experimental group
Description:
RSS Stimulation with high frequency electric pulses
Treatment:
Device: RSS (repetitive sensory stimulation)
Sham-RSS
Sham Comparator group
Description:
Sham RSS Stimulation (no pulses are transmitted)
Treatment:
Device: SHAM-RSS

Trial contacts and locations

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