NCT03740750

TENS and Heat for Reducing Back Pain in Humans

Status unknown NA Last updated 14 November 2018

What this trial tests

NA trial testing Thermacare heat wraps in Pain in 90 participants. Status unknown.

Timeline

15 October 2018

Primary endpoint
31 December 2018

31 December 2018

Quick facts

Lead sponsor	Future Sciene Technology
Phase	NA
Status	Status unknown
Study type	INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation	randomized
Design	parallel
Masking	none
Primary purpose	treatment
Enrollment	90
Start date	15 October 2018
Primary completion	31 December 2018
Estimated completion	31 December 2018
Sites	1 location across United States

Drugs / interventions tested

• Thermacare heat wraps
• TENS
• sham heat
• sham Tens

Conditions studied

• Pain — all drugs for Pain →

Sponsor

Future Sciene Technology

Who can join

Adults 24 to 60, any sex, with Pain. Patients with the condition only — healthy volunteers not accepted.

Sponsor's own description

Lower back pain is one of the most common and most expensive impairments costing time and expense in the work force today. With the effects on cognitive skills and addictive side effects of opioids and other prescription pain killers, there has been increasing interest in alternative medical treatments to relieve pain. Two of these that are commonly used are heat and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS). In the present investigation, there are two objectives 1) to determine if Tens needs to be continuous or can be intermittent and still achieve pain relief and 2) To see how long pain relief lasts after 4 hours of application of tens, heat or both. There will be seventy-five subjects with chronic back pain divided into 6 groups randomly; 15 subjects per group. The intervention will be either TENS alone, Heat alone or Tens plus heat or a control group.

Publications & conference data

No peer-reviewed publications indexed yet for this trial.