Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Fibromyalgia

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine the analgesic effectiveness of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) used as an additional procedure to rehabilitation exercises in patient suffering from fibromyalgia.

A double blind clinical trial with two randomized parallel groups:

- Placebo rTMS and rehabilitation exercise

- Active rTMS and rehabilitation exercise

Clinical Trial Description

Fibromyalgia is the most frequent chronic diffuse painful disease (3 to 4% of the general population).

Analgesic drugs are widely used in fibromyalgia, pain being the main symptom. However the effectiveness of analgesic drugs is often insufficient.

Among non-drug therapies, rehabilitation exercise plays an important role with a special interest in terms of the quality of life, strain and pain.

More recently the Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation effects have been evaluated in patients suffering from fibromyalgia with a statistically significative analgesic effect.

Both rehabilitation exercise and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) have shown their respective analgesic effectiveness in fibromyalgia. It now seems important to evaluate the combination of these two therapies.

Main objective: To evaluate the analgesic effect of rTMS in fibromyalgia patients doing rehabilitation exercise.

Primary endpoint:

The evaluation methode used is a visual analog scale (VAS) of pain. Patients will note down every day VAS of over the last 24 hours.

The evolution of the VAS during the treatment period with respect to baseline, will be compared in both groups, active rTMS and placebo rTMS.

The investigators will analyze the average daily VAS for different weeks (W2, W4, W8, W14) compared to the average daily VAS at the baseline.

After a baseline period of 15 days, patients will begin sessions of rTMS and rehabilitation exercise for a period of 14 weeks.

The study is composed of three assessment visits : a baseline visit, a visit corresponding to the end of the therapy with exercise period and a last assessment visit at 26 weeks after the end of the treatment.

These visits will include clinical examination, blood test, an effort test, an orthostatic test, a resistance to fatigue test and polysomnography. ;

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment

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Clinical Trial Details

NCT number	NCT01308801
Study type	Interventional
Source	University Hospital, Grenoble
Contact
Status	Completed
Phase	N/A
Start date	April 2011
Completion date	September 2015

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