Spinal Magnetic Stimulation in Neuropathic Pain

Singapore Health Services (SingHealth)

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Neuropathic Pain

Treatments: Device: Magnetic Stimulation with tilted coil; Device: magnetic stimulation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00443469

#64/2006

Details and patient eligibility

About

It involves delivering a train of magnetic pulses, 5 at each time, to the brain. In the present study, we are using the same method to treat severe pain due to nerve conditions. You will be given up to 1000 pulses in total over the spine in the lower back (Spinal Magnetic Stimulation or SMS). Each train will be given in 10-second intervals. You will have SMS on a single day. You will be given SMS pulses at 1 or 10 per second. No stimulation will be given over the head.

You will be assessed before and after the study for up to 1 week. Your usual medical treatment will be continued

Full description

You must be aware of that this is a placebo-controlled trial. This means that you may either receive real SMS or sham SMS. The latter involves a harmless process of ineffective stimulation, designed for comparison with real SMS. Whether you receive either form of treatment will be assigned randomly, and there will be a 50% chance of being assigned to either.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• All with neuropathic lower limb pain

Exclusion criteria

• Contraindications to magnetic stimulation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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20 participants in 2 patient groups, including a placebo group

Magnetic Stimulation

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: magnetic stimulation

Magnetic Stimulation with tilted coil

Placebo Comparator group

Description:

Magnetic Stimulation with tilted coil

Treatment:

Device: Magnetic Stimulation with tilted coil