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Effects of Low Versus High Frequency Percutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation on Chronic Neck Pain Patients.

NCT03401905 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2018-05-09

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Summary

Comparison between high and low frequency percutaneous electrical nerve stimulation as treatment of myofascial chronic neck pain. The main hypothesis is that low frequency treatment will have more hypoalgesic effects than high frequency, and low frequency effects will last longer.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Low frequency

A dry needling on trapezius muscle is performed, until two local twitch responses are obtained. The needle is kept inside the trigger point, as it will be the negative electrode, and an adhesive electrode will be added as the positive one. After that, a low frequency TENS is applied, at 2 Hz frequency and 120 microseconds of pulse width.

PROCEDURE

High frequency

A dry needling on trapezius muscle is performed, until two local twitch responses are obtained. The needle is kept inside the trigger point, as it will be the negative electrode, and an adhesive electrode will be added as the positive one. After that, a high frequency TENS is applied, at 12o Hz frequency and 200 microseconds of pulse width.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Centro Universitario La Salle

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jose V León Hernández, PhD · CSEU La Salle

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-02-09
Primary Completion
2018-04-09
Completion
2018-04-09

Countries

  • Spain

Study Locations

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