NCT03683901

The Effect of Electrical Stimulation on Impairment of the Painful Post-Stroke Shoulder

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 10 (actual)
• Sponsor: MetroHealth Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 21 Years – 89 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Examination of the effects of short-term use of TENS and t-NMES on passive pain-free ROM of the painful post-stroke shoulder. Treatments are compared with no stimulation.

Detailed description

Single cohort, cross-over study. Subjects undergo passive pain-free ROM of the painful post-stroke shoulder under 3 stimulation conditions. The stimulation was delivered by a trained occupational therapist under three conditions: 10 seconds of TENS, 10 seconds of t-NMES, and 10 seconds of no stimulation. Each subject was exposed to each of the three stimulation conditions three times in a computer-generated random sequence for each outcome measure with a 5-minute wash-out period between each stimulation. This protocol is repeated for each of the two passive movements tested, shoulder abduction and shoulder external rotation.

Conditions

• Stroke

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	TENS	Electrical Stimulation
DEVICE	t-NMES	Electrical Stimulation
OTHER	No stimulation	No stimulation

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-12-27
• Primary completion: 2011-05-01
• Completion: 2011-05-01
• First posted: 2018-09-25
• Last updated: 2019-09-16
• Results posted: 2019-09-16