NCT04593992

HTEMS Treatment of Diabetic Polyneuropathy

High-tone External Muscle Stimulation for Treatment of Diabetic Polyneuropathy

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 80 (actual)
• Sponsor: West German Center of Diabetes and Health · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 99 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

So far, there are no sufficient pharmacologic therapies for the treatment of diabetic neuropathy. Therefore, we evaluated application of high-tone external muscle stimulation (HTEMS) compared to placebo treatment in patients with diabetic neuropathy.

Detailed description

Patients (n=80) with symptomatic diabetic neuropathy will be included into this randomized controlled trial. Each intervention will be administered for a period of at least 30 min on at leat 5 days in a week. Health impairments will be assessed using the neuropathy symptom score (NSS) before, during and after intervention.

Conditions

• Diabetic Polyneuropathy

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	HTEMS	high-tone external muscle stimulation
DEVICE	Placebo	Placebo stimulation

Timeline

• Start date: 2020-10-20
• Primary completion: 2021-10-31
• Completion: 2021-12-31
• First posted: 2020-10-20
• Last updated: 2022-07-20

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Germany