Scrambler Therapy for Post-Stroke Pain

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2023-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The Investigators will enroll patients who have had a stroke and are experiencing post-stroke pain secondary to their infarct and disruption of the sensory system in a research study to compare the effectiveness of Scrambler Therapy to traditional pharmacologic therapies.

• Phase: Phase 4
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Johns Hopkins University

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Men and women over the age of 18 with ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke seen on imaging and a positive finding for pain in the area(s) affected by their stroke location will be included.

• The patients must be at least one month post-stroke but can otherwise enroll at any point.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients with TIA

• Patients with no evidence of stroke on MRI

• Patients with implantable devices such as pacemakers, defibrillators, spinal cord stimulators

• Patients with history of myocardial infarction in the past 6 months

• Patients with uncontrolled epilepsy

• Patients with symptomatic brain metastases