Effect of Magnet treatment in Head injury patients
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: S098- Other specified injuries of headHealth Condition 2: null- Patients with moderate traumatic brain injury
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2017/02/007789
- Lead Sponsor
- All india institute of medical science
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 20
Moderate TBI patients (defined as: GCS score: 9-12, History of post traumatic amnesia 1 day > to < 7days, LOC >30 minutes to <24 hours)
Age between 18-65 yrs
Males educated at least up to 10th standard
Suffered TBI within last one month
Willing to provide written informed consent to participate in study
Have a mass lesion, cerebral infarct or other active CNS disease.
Past/current history of seizure disorder .
Presence of past (through history)/current (MINI) Axis I disorders including substance abuse/dependence (other than caffeine or nicotine).
Receiving any psychotropic except anti-epileptics
Patients receiving or received any surgical procedures on brain .
Patients with implanted device or metal in the brain/head or cardiac pacemaker.
Facial tattoos with metallic or magnetic-sensitive ink.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The primary outcome will be difference in cognitive functioning in patients receiving active rTMS as compaired to control patients receiving sham-rTMSTimepoint: After 5th and 20th sessions of rTMS.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method To explore the safety and tolerability.Timepoint: After 5th and 20th sessions of rTMS.