Skip to main content
Clinical Trials/DRKS00029724
DRKS00029724
Completed
未知

Transcutaneous auricular Vagus Nerve Stimulation for the treatment of myoarthropatic symptoms in patients with craniomandibular dysfunction – a randomized and controlled pilot trial

Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf0 sites20 target enrollmentAugust 3, 2022

Overview

Phase
未知
Intervention
Not specified
Conditions
Temporomandibular joint dysfunction
Sponsor
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Enrollment
20
Status
Completed
Last Updated
last year

Overview

Brief Summary

No summary available.

Registry
who.int
Start Date
August 3, 2022
End Date
June 10, 2024
Last Updated
last year
Study Type
Interventional
Sex
All

Investigators

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

  • The inclusion criteria will consider the following:
  • \- Chronic Temporomandibular disorders (TMD)
  • \- Age \>18 years
  • \- Provided written informed consent to participate in the trial
  • \- Positive response to the question, Do you have pain in the right side of your face, the left side, or both?
  • \- Grade III or IV of the Graduation of Chronic Pain Scale (GCPS)
  • \- No depression or a depression that has been stably treated for 4 weeks

Exclusion Criteria

  • The exclusion criteria will consider the following:
  • \- Orofacial pain or diagnosis(es) that do not qualify as myalgia, myofascial pain, or arthralgia based on the Diagnostic Criteria for Temporomandibular Disorders (DC/TMD)
  • \- Severe neurological disorders such as schizophrenia
  • \- Interventions with vagus nerve stimulation or history of vagotomy
  • \- History of relevant cardiac diseases: bradycardic arrhythmia (e.g. sick sinus syndrome), heart failure, condition after myocardial infarction
  • \- Active implant, such as pacemaker, defibrillator, neurostimulator, cochlear implant or drug delivery device, and ventricular shunt
  • \- Inability to understand the study protocol
  • \- Progressive neurological disease (e.g., Parkinson's disease, MS, epilepsy)
  • \- Pregnancy
  • \- Prostate cancer

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Not specified

Similar Trials