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NCT05560139 | Not yet recruiting | Multiple Sclerosis


The Effect of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Fatigue Among Multiple Sclerosis Patients.Patients
Sponsor:

Assiut University

Information provided by (Responsible Party):

Entsar Karem Abd Elazeem

Brief Summary:

This work is aimed to assess the long term effect of TDCS in fatigue management among MS patients

Condition or disease

Multiple Sclerosis

Intervention/treatment

a-tDCS

Phase

Not Applicable

Detailed Description:

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system that is considered one of the most frequent causes of disability in the young adult. Fatigue in MS may affect up to 80 % of the people with MS. It tends to persist over time once it appears. However, despite high frequency, fatigue remains poorly understood. Fatigue in MS is neither consistently linked to disease severity nor disease duration, although it is found to be worse in individuals with the secondary progressive subtype. Fatigue is distinct from sleepiness, and fails to improve with adequate sleep. Multiple factors are thought to contribute to fatigue[7 , 8] with no specific biomarker or etiology yet confirmed. A wide variety of therapies have been tested to reduce fatigue in MS, but unfortunately, none have been consistently effective. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) is a relatively recent therapeutic development that utilizes low-amplitude direct currents to induce changes in cortical excitability. Although various non-invasive neuromodulation technologies are available , tDCS has unique advantages compared to other stimulation methods such as its ease of use, lower cost, and greater safety and tolerability. Small preliminary studies have observed that tDCS may be a promising treatment for MS fatigue, using sham-controlled crossover designs, with five tDCS sessions, using either a motor, sensory, or dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC). Recently Chalah et al.[12] study demonstrated that DLPFC (left anodal) when compared the posterior parietal cortex led to the most fatigue specific improvements. Thus, tDCS can reduce fatigue burden for people with MS, it may be possible to implement a tDCS therapy for symptomatic management of fatigue.

Study Type : Interventional
Estimated Enrollment : 36 participants
Masking: Double
Masking Description: Anodal, or sham with a ratio 1:1 were placed in serially numbered opaque closed envelopes. Each patient was given a serial number from a computer generated randomization table, and was placed in the appropriate group after opening the corresponding sealed envelope.
Primary Purpose: Treatment
Official Title: The Effect of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation on Fatigue Among Multiple Sclerosis Patients
Actual Study Start Date : December 1, 2022
Estimated Primary Completion Date : May 1, 2023
Estimated Study Completion Date : September 1, 2023
Arm Intervention/treatment

Experimental: experimental group

Participants in the experimental groups received ten -sessions a-tDCS (1.5mA, 20minutes) anodal stimulation of left DLPC over two weeks duration (five sessions per week).

Device: a-tDCS

Sham Comparator: sham group

The sham group received ten sessions of sham stimulation for 20-minutes in each session.

Device: a-tDCS

Ages Eligible for Study:
Sexes Eligible for Study: All
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
Criteria
Inclusion Criteria
  • Any adult patient will be fulfilling diagnostic criteria of Multiple sclerosis and could be providing consent for participation in the study, will be included in the study.
Exclusion Criteria
  • any patient showed this following condition will be excluded from the study;
  • Any MS patient had any contraindication condition to use TMS or TCDS (such as epilepsy, head trauma, metallic procedure, cerebral insult)
  • Any patient had infection or febrile condition.
  • Any patient had other co morbid neurological or psychiatric disorders or systemic disease.
  • Any patient refuses participation in study.

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