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Last refreshed on: 12 December 2020
Main ID:  NCT03263884
Date of registration: 24/08/2017
Prospective Registration: No
Primary sponsor: Aalborg University
Public title: Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and the Development of Ongoing Muscle Pain
Scientific title: Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation and the Development of Ongoing Muscle Pain
Date of first enrolment: August 1, 2017
Target sample size: 30
Recruitment status: Completed
URL:  https://clinicaltrials.gov/show/NCT03263884
Study type:  Interventional
Study design:  Allocation: Randomized. Intervention model: Parallel Assignment. Primary purpose: Treatment. Masking: Single (Participant).  
Phase:  N/A
Countries of recruitment
Denmark
Contacts
Name:     Enrico De Martino, MD
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Telephone:
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Affiliation:  Aalborg University
Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Healthy men and women

- Speak and understand English.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Pregnancy

- Drug addiction defined as the use of cannabis, opioids or other drugs

- Previous neurologic, musculoskeletal or mental illnesses

- Lack of ability to cooperate

- History of chronic pain or current acute pain

- Previous experience with rTMS

- Contraindications to rTMS application (history of epilepsy, metal in the head or jaw
etc.).

- Failure to pass the "TASS questionnaire" (TASS = Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation
Adult Safety Screen)



Age minimum: 21 Years
Age maximum: 50 Years
Gender: All
Health Condition(s) or Problem(s) studied
Pain Relief
Intervention(s)
Device: Repetitive trancranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) group
Device: Sham group
Primary Outcome(s)
Pain relief [Time Frame: Change from baseline at 2 weeks]
Secondary Outcome(s)
Cuff pressure algometry [Time Frame: Change from baseline at 2 weeks]
Attention network test [Time Frame: Change from baseline at 2 weeks]
Muscle soreness [Time Frame: Change from baseline at 2 weeks]
EEG recordings [Time Frame: Change from baseline at 1 weeks]
Pressure pain thresholds [Time Frame: Change from baseline at 2 weeks]
Patient-rated Tennis Elbow Evaluation [Time Frame: Change from baseline at 2 weeks]
Secondary ID(s)
N-20170041
Source(s) of Monetary Support
Please refer to primary and secondary sponsors
Secondary Sponsor(s)
Ethics review
Results
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