Status:
COMPLETED
Motor Cortex Plasticity and the Effect of Deep Intramuscular Needling Stimulation Therapy (DIMST) in Osteoarthritis Pain
Lead Sponsor:
Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre
Collaborating Sponsors:
Associação Fundo de Incentivo à Pesquisa
Conditions:
Knee Osteoarthritis
Chronic Pain
Eligibility:
FEMALE
18+ years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The aim of this study is to evaluate the cortical excitability in pain of knee osteoarthritis (OA), as well as the effect of one session of a kind of electroacupuncture (deep needling intramuscular st...
Detailed Description
Recent developments in the treatment of chronic pain have shown that the primary motor cortex (M1) is an effective target for neural brain stimulation techniques, such as transcranial magnetic stimula...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Women with over 18 years old, with chronic pain because of primary osteoarthritis of the knee.
- Pain stable for at least three months. Score greater than or equal to 3 cm (0 cm = "no pain" and "worst possible pain" = 10cm) on VAS for pain perception at baseline.
- No contraindications to electro acupuncture or transcranial magnetic stimulation.
- Naive in acupuncture treatment.
Exclusion
- Clinically significant or unstable disorder, medical or psychiatric.
- Presence of neurological or rheumatic comorbidity.
- Pregnancy.
- Having performed surgery in the knee to be treated in the last 6 months, or be planning surgery for the next semester.
- Having performed with corticosteroid infiltration in the last six weeks or are using this.
- Having performed with hyaluronic acid infiltration.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
February 1 2012
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
July 1 2012
Estimated Enrollment :
26 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01855958
Start Date
February 1 2012
End Date
July 1 2012
Last Update
September 15 2017
Active Locations (1)
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Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre.
Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil, 90035903