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CompletedNCT04003714

REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION FOR FAILED BACK SURGERY SYNDROME

EFFECTIVENESS OF REPETITIVE TRANSCRANIAL MAGNETIC STIMULATION IN PATIENTS WITH FAILED BACK SURGERY SYNDROME A DOUBLE-BLINDED, RANDOMISED, PLACEBO CONTROLLED TRIAL

Status
Completed
Phase
N/A
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
20 (actual)
Sponsor
Fatih Sultan Mehmet Training and Research Hospital · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
18 Years – 65 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

Failed back surgery syndrome (FBSS) is the term of persistent back and/or leg pain after surgery for lumbar disk herniation (LDH). Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (r-TMS) is a technique that allows non-invasive and relatively painless stimulation of cerebral cortex. It can reduce the experience of chronic pain by using magnetic field to produce small electrical currents in the cortex.The aim of this study is to determine the effectiveness of r-TMS treatment on patients with FBSS.

Detailed description

Methods: In this double-blinded, randomized, placebo-controlled trial, 20 patients (aged 34-65 years) clinically diagnosed as FBSS, who had a history of surgery for LDH with persistent back and leg pain. Patients in r-TMS group received 5 Hz of r-TMS, as a 20-min (1000 pulses) daily session, 5 days per weeks, for a total of 10 sessions. R-TMS applied with MagVenture device (MagPro X100, Denmark, 2009) and figure eight coil (MMC 140 parabolic, MagVenture). Control group received sham r-TMS with the same protocol. Patients were assessed at baseline,after 5th and 10th sessions and 1 and 3 months after treatment. Visual Analogue Scale (VAS), DN-4 (Douleur Neuropathique-4 Questionnaire), Oswestry Disability Index (ODI), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) were used for evaluation.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
DEVICERepetitive Transcranial Magnetic StimulationPatients in r-TMS group received 5 Hz of r-TMS. R-TMS applied with MagVenture device (MagPro X100, Denmark, 2009) and figure eight coil (MMC 140 parabolic, MagVenture).
DEVICESham Repetitive transcranial Magnetic StimulationControl group received sham r-TMS.

Timeline

Start date
2014-05-01
Primary completion
2014-08-01
Completion
2014-08-01
First posted
2019-07-01
Last updated
2020-02-20

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT04003714. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.