Treatment of Neck Pain With Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation

University of Cadiz

Status

Completed

Conditions

Cervical Syndrome

Treatments

Procedure: Physiotherapy treatment with physium device.

Procedure: Conventional physiotherapy treatment.

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04729270

tDCS

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study aim to investigate the effects of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for improving pressure pain thresholds (PPTs), range of motion,Neck Disability Index, the multidimensional health related quality of life (SF-12) and the multidimensional health related quality of life and pain in patients with mechanical neck pain (NP).

Full description

Fifty-four participants with NP will randomly allocated to either an Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (ten sessions) or transcutaneous electric nerve stimulation (TENS) (ten sessions) during two weeks. . Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), Neck Disability Index ( NDI), range of motion and (CROM), Questionnaire SF-12 and PPTs in sub-occipital and upper trapezius muscles were measured at baseline, at the end of treatment and at 1 month follow-up. T-tests and a repeated-measures multivariate analysis of variance (RM-MANOVA) were used for VAS, CROM and PPTs, respectively.

Enrollment

30 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 60 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Patients of both sexes,
Aged between 18 and 60 years, in an
Active state of pain and diagnosed with a month of evolution.

Exclusion criteria

Patients who are pregnant, have pacemaker and those Surgically operated cervical spine - Patients who have been treated with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation a month earlier.