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tDCS Effects on Chronic Low Back Pain

NCT01875029 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 45

Last updated 2014-01-16

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Back School (BS) is a behavioural intervention designed to treat and prevent chronic low back pain. Up to date clinical research studies have shown that transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is able to decrease the intensity and duration of pain modulating the activity of brain areas involved in the circuits that regulate pain and facilitating the mechanisms inhibitors descendants of pain control.

The aim of this study is to test the feasibility of combining tDCS with a behavioural intervention (i.e. BS) in subjects with chronic low back pain.

Conditions

Interventions

DEVICE

sham-tDCS + back school

sham tDCS + back school

DEVICE

real-tDCS + back school

real tDCS + back school

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University Hospital of Ferrara

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-01-31
Primary Completion
2013-11-30
Completion
2013-12-31

Countries

  • Italy

Study Locations

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Diseases

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