NCT03179488

Therapist-dependent Dose of Spinal TENS

Intensity Matters: Therapist-dependent Dose of Spinal Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (estimated)
• Sponsor: University of Castilla-La Mancha · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The intensity used during transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) in both, clinical practice and research studies, is often based on subjective commands such as "strong but comfortable sensation". There is not consensus regarding the effectiveness dose of TENS

Detailed description

Twenty healthy volunteers will divide into two groups: Therapist 1 and Therapist 2. Both therapist will apply spinal TENS and sham stimulation for 40min in random order to each subject, at an intensity to produce a "strong but comfortable sensation".

Conditions

• Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation
• Spinal Cord Stimulation
• Dose-response Relationship

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Spinal TENS	Spinal TENS stimulation over back through the electrotherapy device Myomed 932. (Enraf-Nonius, Delft, Netherlands)
DEVICE	Sham stimulation	Sham stimulation over back through the electrotherapy device Myomed 932. (Enraf-Nonius, Delft, Netherlands)

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-07-03
• Primary completion: 2017-08-01
• Completion: 2017-08-01
• First posted: 2017-06-07
• Last updated: 2017-07-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain