NCT03898245

Effectiveness of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for TKR

Effectiveness of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Postoperative Pain in Total Knee Replacement Surgery

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 70 (estimated)
• Sponsor: SMG-SNU Boramae Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a technique of noninvasive cortical stimulation allowing significant modification of brain function used. Clinical application of this technique could be helpful for pain, Parkinson's disease, dystonia, cerebral palsy and dementia etc. And tDCS is safe with only mild, transient adverse effects. But there is few studies focused to postoperative states. The aim of this project is to reveal the effect of tDCS for postoperative pain after total knee replacement surgery,

Conditions

• Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation
• Post Operative Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	apply tDCS	Intensity 2mA, 20minues, 4 times (post operation in 30min, in 4hrs, next day morning and next day afternoon) anodal tDCS applied over the left DLPFC cathodal tDCS applied over the right DLPFC
DEVICE	Sham tDCS	Intensity 0mA, 40 seconds, 4 times (post operation in 30min, in 4hrs, next day morning and next day afternoon) anodal tDCS applied over the left DLPFC cathodal tDCS applied over the right DLPFC

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-05-01
• Primary completion: 2020-04-30
• Completion: 2020-05-10
• First posted: 2019-04-01
• Last updated: 2019-04-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea