NCT05972837

Effects of Home-based Surface Electrical Stimulation for Patients with Cervical Myofascial Pain Syndrome

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Taipei Medical University WanFang Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to compare the developed home-based surface electrical stimulation program to the controls in computer office workers with MPS.

Detailed description

Cervical myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) is a common problem among workers who have large amount of computer use. Additionally, owing to the high workload and long hours of staying in thier cubicle, the office employees are often unable to have extra time to receive rehabilitation and treatment regularly. A home-based surface electrical stimulation (SES) program is developed to help intervention be time-saving and more accessible for office-based staff busy at work. In this single-blind randomized controlled trial, participants will be assigned to one of the following three groups and undergo 3 weeks (20 minutes/ time, three times/ week) of intervention: 1. SES combined with telemedical support 2. SES 3. No intervention The outcome assessments will be performed before and after the intervention (0-wk and 4-wk) and 4 weeks after the endpoint of intervention (8-wk). The outcome assessor was blind to the intervention and group allocation.

Conditions

• Myofascial Pain Syndrome of Neck

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Surface electrical stimulation (SES)	Participants will undergo 3 weeks (20 minutes/ time, three times/ week) of SES intervention.
OTHER	Remote medical support	The remote medical support includes a session of video call with a rehabilitation doctor in the first week and weekly telehealth visits with a live physical therapist or physician. The contents of the video calls contain patient education, stretching exercises teaching and instructions of using SES for MPS.

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-08-04
• Primary completion: 2025-08-01
• Completion: 2025-11-01
• First posted: 2023-08-02
• Last updated: 2025-01-17

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan