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Assessment of therapeutic effects of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulationin radiculopathic pain

Thesis

Last updated: 06 Feb 2023

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Tags

Clinical Neurophysiology

Advisors

El-Habashi, Hala R., Abou-Mousa, Ahmad M., El-Fayyoumi, Nivin M.

Authors

El-Khouli, Mussttafa Mahmoud

Accessioned

2017-07-12 06:42:47

Available

2017-07-12 06:42:47

type

M.Sc. Thesis

Abstract

Cervical radicular pain has a high impact on the patient’s quality of life and no definitive conclusions on the optimal therapy till now and still there is a clear and unmet need for new treatments to be introduced.Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) is a safe, non-invasive and painless technique that can interfere with neural functions related to a target cortical area and at distant sites.These effects may outlast the duration of the trains of stimuli, for minutes, hours or even days.In this study we investigated the pain relieving effects of high (20 Hz) and low (1 Hz) frequency rTMS on 20 patients with cervical radicular pain as assessed by different pain scales and if these effects were prolonged or only short lasting.Our study showed that both protocols of stimulation resulted in improvement of the different pain scales without a statistically significant difference between both protocols and this effect was decreased after one month but remained below the level of pain before treatment.

Issued

1 Jan 2013

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.21473/iknito-space/38402

Details

Type

Thesis

Created At

28 Jan 2023