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| Name | Class |
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| Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos de Toledo | OTHER |
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The purpose of this study is to determine whether the transcutaneous application of unmodulated high frequency alternating currents could produce a quickly conduction block of peripheral nerve.
In the last years several animal experimental studies have evidenced that high frequency unmodulated currents about 5 KHz can cause a peripheral nerve block. However electric currents with these high frequencies that are usually used for the treatment of pain in humans are interrupted or modulated (i.e. interferential currents).
It has show that the diameter of the nerve it is related with the frequency to produce the conduction block. For this reason the investigators decided to applied 20KHz to observe the effects on maximal manual force and to compare versus sham stimulation.
Only one study has applied 5KHz on experimental pain and they have demonstrated changes in somatosensory thresholds.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| High-Frequency | Experimental | Transcutaneous application of high frequency electrical current over the arm for a 20 minutes session. The intensity of the current will increase until participants report a "strong but comfortable" sensation, just below motor threshold. |
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| Sham stimulation | Sham Comparator | Electrodes are placed over the arm for a 20 minutes in the same manner as experimental group but will be applied a sham electrical stimulation increasing the current intensity of an unconnected channel |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| High-Frequency Stimulation | Device | high-Frequency electrical stimulation over superficial ulnar and median nerve through the electrotherapy device Myomed 932. (Enraf-Nonius, Delft, Netherlands) |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Baseline Hand Muscle Strength | The hand muscle strength will be measured with a dynamometer and will be expressed in Newton | Baseline at 0 min |
| Hand muscle strength after treatment 20 min | The hand muscle strength will be measured with a dynamometer and will be expressed in Newton | After treatment 20 min |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Change from baseline in Muscle strength | The hand muscle strength will be measured with a dynamometer and will be expressed in Newton | baseline at 0 min, immediately after treatment at 20 min |
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Diego Serrano-Muñoz, MsC | Contact | +34 925 24 77 00 | 47783 | dserranomu@externas.sescam.jccm.es |
| Julio Gómez-Soriano, PhD | Contact | +34 925 26 88 00 | 5845 | julio.soriano@uclm.es |
| Name | Affiliation | Role |
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| Diego Serrano-Muñoz, MsC | Hospital Nacional de Parapléjicos, Toledo | Principal Investigator |
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| PubMed Identifier | Type | Citation | Retractions |
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| 30419966 | Derived | Serrano-Munoz D, Avendano-Coy J, Simon-Martinez C, Taylor J, Gomez-Soriano J. Effect of high-frequency alternating current transcutaneous stimulation over muscle strength: a controlled pilot study. J Neuroeng Rehabil. 2018 Nov 12;15(1):103. doi: 10.1186/s12984-018-0443-2. |
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| sham Stimulation | Device | Sham transcutaneous electrical stimulation over superficial ulnar and median nerve through the electrotherapy device Myomed 932. (Enraf-Nonius, Delft, Netherlands) |
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