Neuromuscular Electrical Therapy in Venous Ulcers

Faculdade Evangelica do Parana

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 4

Conditions

Chronic Venous Insufficiency

Treatments

Other: neuromuscular electrical stimulation

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01372020

fepar-04

Details and patient eligibility

About

The use of neuromuscular electrical stimulation in the treatment of venous ulcers with difficulty of repair could be an alternative therapeutic favoring devitalized tissues and hence the pain.

The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of neuromuscular electrical stimulation on pain and area of venous ulcers in patients with venous insufficiency.

Full description

The aim was to evaluate the effect of neuromuscular electrical stimulation on pain and area of venous ulcers in patients with venous insufficiency. In a simple-blind controlled clinical study, 20 subjects with venous ulcers with age over 50 years will be divided in two groups:neuromuscular electrical stimulation(n=10) and control group (n=10). Pain (by Visual Analogue Scale) and the ulcer area (by planimetry on graph paper and the software ImageJ ®) were measured.

Enrollment

20 patients

Sex

All

Ages

50 to 85 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Subjects of both genders
aged over 50 years
sedentary and with clinical diagnosis of chronic venous insufficiency with ulcer in lower limbs will be included

Exclusion criteria

Subjects with pacemakers
diabetes
uncontrolled hypertension
osteomyelitis and pain of unknown origin
unable to walk or make use of drugs that acted directly on the healing process will be excluded