Efficacy of Microcurrent Therapy for Treatment of Knee Pain

Omron Healthcare

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Acute Knee Pain

Treatments: Device: Microcurrent

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry; Other

Identifiers

NCT03511014

HI794-0001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of microcurrent therapy at the knee pain.

Enrollment: 70 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 21 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Pain perceived as a minimum of 3/10 on a 0-10 pain scale
• No phobia of electrical stimulation
• No pain or anti-inflammatory medication will be taken during study
• Injury that began prior to 6-weeks ago before the onset of pain
• Grade II soft tissue injury

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnancy
• Diabetes Mellitus
• Neuropathy
• Smoker
• Uncontrolled HTN
• Past surgery in the region to be treated by microcurrent
• Arthritis (RA) in the area to be treated by microcurrent
• Cardiovascular disease
• Allergic to tape/electrodes
• Ligament injury
• Patella Femoral Pain Syndrome (Anterior knee pain)
• Dementia
• Grade III soft tissue injury

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Quadruple Blind

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70 participants in 2 patient groups

microcurrent

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: Microcurrent

control

Sham Comparator group

Treatment:

Device: Microcurrent