NCT02151565

High-tone External Muscle Stimulation for Pain Reduction

High-tone External Muscle Stimulation for Treatment of Chronic Pain

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: West German Center of Diabetes and Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 99 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Sciatica is a common pain problem that affects not only the patient but also constitutes a socioeconomic burden and thus affects the whole society. So far, current pharmacologic therapies are inadequate for many patients. Therefore, we evaluated application of high-tone external muscle stimulation (HTEMS) compared to transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) on radicular pain associated with sciatica.

Detailed description

Hospital patients (n=100) with chronic sciatica and stable oral analgesic regimen were included into this randomized controlled cross-over trial. Each intervention was administered for a period of 45 min 5 times within 10 days, with a 3-day wash-out period before cross-over. Health impairments had been assessed using the visual analog scales (VAS) for radicular pain before and after intervention and differences in radicular pain between groups were analysed with the Mann-Whitney test.

Conditions

• Chronic Radicular Back Pain
• Lumboischialgia
• Cervico Brachialgia

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	HTEMS
DEVICE	TENS

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-11-01
• Primary completion: 2013-11-01
• Completion: 2013-11-01
• First posted: 2014-05-30
• Last updated: 2020-10-19

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: Germany