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Treatment of Erosive Digital Osteoarthritis by Transcutaneous Auricular Nerve Stimulation

NCT03919279 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2020-04-09

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Summary

Erosive hand osteoarthritis (EHOA) is a subtype of had osteoarthritis characterized by inflammation and pain, with subsequent burden. Few symptomatic treatments are available in EHOA, while this population with EHOA has frequently comorbidities.

Stimulation of the vagus nerve (VN), belonging to parasympathetic system, dampens pro-inflammatory cytokines production by splenic macrophages, through to the binding of acetylcholine neurotransmitter to α7nicotinic receptor on macrophages: this is the cholinergic anti-inflammatory pathway (CAP). Beyond its anti-inflammatory effects, VNS is analgesic in chronic pain disorders (headache, fibromyalgia). Beside implantable devices, VNS may be performed using transcutaneous stimulation of the ascendant auricular branch of the VN (tVNS) at the left ear localized on the cymba conchae tVNS is well-tolerated therapy avoiding invasive neurosurgery.

The investigator do the hypothesis that auricular tVNS using a transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) device could be a novel, simple and well-tolerated analgesic and anti-inflammatory treatment of symptomatic EHOA.

Conditions

  • Erosive Osteo-Arthritis
  • Hand Osteoarthritis

Interventions

DEVICE

active tVNS

tVNS using TENS device from Schwa-Medico (TENSeco2) + auricular electrode applied on the left ear (Schwa-Medico) + conductive gel class I; 25 Hz stimulation 1 hour daily for 1 month

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Jérémie Sellam, MD PhD PUPH · Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2019-05-29
Primary Completion
2019-12-16
Completion
2019-12-16

Countries

  • France

Study Locations

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