Predicting Outcome of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulator (TENS) in Failed Back Surgery Syndrome

NCT01185665 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2010-08-20

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Summary

The study investigates the feasibility and efficacy of Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulator (TENS) in a subgroup of patients with neuropathic pain. Those patients are suffering of neuropathic pain at the lower back and leg after spinal surgery with a predominance of pain in the leg.

Conditions

  • Failed Back Surgery Syndrome

Interventions

DEVICE

TENS

Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulator

DEVICE

Sham-TENS

TENS without electrical output, from the outside not different from a normal TENS

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Evenepoel Kristof

    collaborator UNKNOWN
  • De Rudder Marc

    collaborator UNKNOWN
  • Dokter Moens Maarten (primary investigator)

    collaborator UNKNOWN
  • Prof. dr. Cattrysse Eric

    collaborator UNKNOWN
  • Prof. Dr. D'Haens Jean

    collaborator UNKNOWN
  • Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Maarten Moens, M.D. · Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-09-30
Primary Completion
2011-09-30
Completion
2011-09-30

Countries

  • Belgium

Study Locations

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