Noxipoint Therapy Versus Standard Physical Therapy Using Electrical Stimulation for Chronic Pain

Pain Cure Center, California

Status

Completed

Conditions

Shoulder Pain

Neck Pain

Treatments

Procedure: Noxipoint Therapy

Procedure: Physical Therapy

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Industry

Identifiers

NCT01578148

NT-01-2012

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to validate the efficacy of Noxipoint(TM) therapy on chronic pain, and compare it with standard physical therapy using electrical stimulation on patients with chronic pain.

Invented by Dr. Charlie Koo at Stanford University, Noxipoint Therapy is a specific procedure with precise location, duration and intensity of TENS stimulation within the general FDA guidelines. The therapy substantially relieves general muscular/tendon pain and persistently restores the muscle and tendon function. The surface locations of nociceptors at the free nerve ending (i.e., "Noxipoints") are focused on in the stimulation therapy. Multiple clinical uses of Noxipoint Therapy confirmed the consistent efficacy of such stimulation at Noxipoints. An observational study of Noxipoint therapy within the FDA-approved use of TENS demonstrated an encouraging 93% success rate in eliminating the chronic pain, such as frozen shoulder pain, within 2-3 sessions. It is an order-of-magnitude improvement over the non-specific application of TENS and any other modalities in pain treatment. A unique neuro-immuno-signaling pathway that implicates the activation of adult stem cells, such as satellite cells in muscles, is implicated based on such a high success rate.

Full description

View http://paincurecenter.com/Clinical_Outcome.html for the observational study mentioned in the Brief Summary above. For more detailed cases, please view http://paincurecenter.com/uploads/Nocipoint_therapy_clinical_study_w_o_ID_2011-2012.pdf

Enrollment

34 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 64 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

18-64 years old male or female
Having chronic pain (ICD-9: 338.21, 338.29) in the neck/upper back (ICD-9: 723.1), or the shoulder (ICD-9: 719.41)
Pain duration over 6 months, with at least one month of history of other therapy treatments (Physical therapy, steroid injection, acupuncture, analgesic medicine, and/or massage therapy)

Exclusion criteria

Patients with BPI Severity at its Worst below 5
Traumatic injury from external impact force
Pain caused by traumatic bone fractures
History of traumatic cervical injury
History of osteoporosis
Pain related to systemic inflammatory conditions including polymyalgia rheumatic, systemic lupus erythematosis
Signs of psychosomatic illness
Severe rheumatoid arthritis undergoing active treatment including DMARD biologics
Steroid injection on pain site within 4 weeks
Language and/or cognitive inability to complete the assessment questionnaires
Previous TENS for pain relief
For safety reasons, patients wearing cardiac pace makers, implanted defibrillator, or pregnant women