High Voltage Pulsed Current and Microcurrent Stimulation Therapy in Treatment of Wounds.

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Completed

Conditions: Ulcer; Wound

Treatments: Other: High voltage pulsed current; Other: Microcurrent therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05601245

P.T.REC/012/003742

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of high-voltage pulsed current (HVPC) and microcurrent stimulation therapy (MST) in treating chronic wounds and to compare their effects.

Full description

Sixty patients with chronic wounds (pressure ulcers) and their ages will be ranged from 45 to 60 years old. They will be recruited from the outpatient clinic at Kasr Al-Aini Hospitals and they will be randomly assigned into two groups of equal numbers, each one will contain thirty patients. High-voltage pulsed current group and microcurrent stimulation therapy groups. The change in wound surface area and wound volume will be measured before the intervention and after six weeks of intervention.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 45 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients are of both sexes.
• Subject's age will be from 45 to 60 years.
• All patients will enter the study having their informed consent.
• All patients will be assessed by a physician before starting the study procedure.
• All patients suffer from a chronic wound not healed more than or within six weeks.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients with acute wounds.
• Patients with burn wound injuries.
• Malignancy in the wound.
• Necrotic tissue in the wound.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

High voltage pulsed current

Experimental group

Description:

Twenty patients with chronic wounds will be managed by the high-voltage pulsed current for 45 as the total treatment duration and the polarity will be reversed after 22 minutes, three sessions per week for six weeks.

Treatment:

Other: High voltage pulsed current

Microcurrent therapy

Experimental group

Description:

Twenty patients with chronic wounds will be managed by microcurrent therapy for 40 minutes, three sessions per week for six weeks.

Treatment:

Other: Microcurrent therapy