The University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston
The overall goal is to investigate the effectiveness of a novel intervention - transcranial alternating current stimulation (tACS) for neuropathic pain management in people after spinal cord injury.
Inclusion/exclusion criteria for SCI subjects Inclusion criteria: A patient who 1. has neuropathic pain after traumatic spinal cord injury or amputation or brain injury; 2. has chronic pain, \>3 months; 3. is between 18 to 75 years of age; 4. is stable on oral pain medications at least two weeks. Patients are allowed to continue their pain medications, i.e., no change in pain medications. NOTE: we plan to begin the study with the spinal cord injury (SCI) subject population as a cohort first, then expand to other subject populations Exclusion criteria: Patients will be excluded if they 1.…
Sham tACS will applied to the brain through the scalp for 20 minutes.
10Hz tACS will applied to the brain through the scalp for 20 minutes.
20Hz tACS will applied to the brain through the scalp for 20 minutes.
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