The influence of the stimulating frequency involved in analgesia by electroacupuncture

Study by stimulatory frequency in analgesia with electroacupuncture

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12609000480280

Acronym

Cervical pain

Enrollment

Registered

2009-06-18

Start date

2006-05-05

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

The goal of this research is the avaluation of the influence of the electrical stimulation frequency on the induced analgesia for tensional cervical pain. For the development of the experimental protocol, a micropocessed electrical stimulation system yielding a non-symmetrical. balanced, rectangular pulse. The tested frequency was 2, 100, 1000, 2500 hz. and one group only by acupuncture. The instruments for avaluation and comparison were applied: pressure algometry, analog visual scale and cardiac frequency.

Interventions

66 volunteers were treated with cervical pain, stimuation in trapezius muscles, by electroacupunture divided into 5 groups. Each group was treated with different frequencies stimulatory (2, 100, 1000, 2500 Hz and a group only with acupuncture). 66 volunteers received only one session by 20 minutes each. The electroacupuncture is a electrical stimulation in the needles acupuncture. The eletroacupuncture was administred to the trapezius muscles in the acupoint denomination tianliao and jianjing.

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Other

Primary purpose

Treatment

Masking

Blinded (masking used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to 53 Years

Healthy volunteers

Yes

Inclusion criteria

Tensional cervical pain;

Exclusion criteria

Pregnat; smoking; eplepsy without use drugs by analgesic

Outcome results