NCT02817867

Association Between Brain Stimulations for the Rehabilitation of Chronic Stroke Patients

Association Between Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Chronic Stroke Patients Rehabilitation: a Randomized Clinical Trial.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 45 (actual)
• Sponsor: Federal University of Health Science of Porto Alegre · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 85 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Cerebrovascular accident (CVA) is a cerebrovascular disease with high incidence and morbidity in the Brazilian population, and is considered a major cause of disability in adults. Brain damage caused by stroke generates a maladaptive pattern of neural activity and modulation between the cerebral hemispheres, unbalancing in the inter-hemispheric inhibition. This condition affects patient's functional recovery. The aim of this study is to verify the effectiveness of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation Association (rTMS) in the cortex motor contralesional, Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS) in the motor cortex ipsilesional and the association between these two types of brain stimulations on the upper limb recovery after stroke.

Conditions

• Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	tDCS	Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS)
DEVICE	TMS	Transcranial magnetic stimulation
DEVICE	tDCS + TMS	Association between tDCS and TMS.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-06-01
• Primary completion: 2017-10-01
• Completion: 2017-12-01
• First posted: 2016-06-29
• Last updated: 2019-06-13

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Brazil