Evaluation of Pressure Sense Threshold and Tactile Sensation After Lidocaine Iontophoresis Using Interferential Current

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2015-03-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: Female

Summary

Drug delivery is conducted through various methods such as injection, phonophoresis, and iontophoresis. Iontophoresis is defined as the noninvasive delivery of active ions through epidermis using direct current. The direct current has some disadvantages such as skin burning and limited time of application. Interferential current is a kind of alternating currents without limitations of direct current; so the purpose of this study was to investigate and compare the effects of Lidocaine, interferential current and Lidocaine iontophoresis using interferential current.

• Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Shiraz University of Medical Sciences
• Treatments: Lidocaine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• healthy women with age between 18 and 25 years old

Exclusion Criteria:

• Systemic disorders,

• neuro-muscular diseases such as diabetes and all forms of neuropathies,

• and use of narcoleptic drugs which may contaminate the results.

• Also, none of the participants were on their menstrual cycle.