NCT01347736

Scrambler Therapy in Treating Chronic Pain in Patients With Rash From Varicella Zoster Virus Infection

Scrambler Therapy for the Treatment of Chronic Zoster Pain

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (actual)
• Sponsor: Mayo Clinic · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This pilot clinical trial studies how well scrambler therapy works treating chronic pain in patients with rash from varicella zoster virus infection. Scrambler therapy may help relieve pain from a rash caused by varicella zoster virus infection

Detailed description

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To explore whether we can decrease post-herpetic neuralgia (PHN) pain with scrambler therapy. OUTLINE: Patients undergo scrambler therapy for approximately 30 minutes. Treatment continues for 10 days in the absence of pain progression or unacceptable toxicity. After the completion of study treatment, patients are followed up for 10 weeks.

Conditions

• Dermatologic Complications
• Pain
• Viral Infection

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	scrambler therapy	Undergo scrambler therapy
OTHER	questionnaire administration	Ancillary studies
PROCEDURE	dermatologic complications management/prevention	Undergo scrambler therapy

Timeline

• Start date: 2011-03-01
• Primary completion: 2012-11-07
• Completion: 2014-11-07
• First posted: 2011-05-04
• Last updated: 2018-04-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States