Effectiveness of transcranial direct current stimulation preceding cognitive behavioural management for chronic low back pain: Sham controlled double blinded randomised controlled trial

BMJ (Online)

Volumn 350, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Luedtke, Kerstin ^a   Rushton, Alison ^b   Wright, Christine ^b   Jürgens, Tim ^a   Polzer, Astrid ^a   Mueller, Gerd ^c   May, Arne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER HAMBURG EPPENDORF   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c Backpain Clinic Am Michel   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENTS ACTING ON THE PERIPHERAL NERVOUS AND NEUROMUSCULAR SYSTEMS; ANTIASTHMATIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIMALARIAL AGENT; CARDIOVASCULAR AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID; HORMONE; HORMONES AND AGENTS ACTING ON THE ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE DERIVATIVE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COGNITIVE THERAPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISABILITY; DISEASE DURATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ELECTRODE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PROGRAM; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; LOW BACK PAIN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALARIA; MALE; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE STIMULATOR; OSWESTRY DISABILITY INDEX; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN INTENSITY; PARALLEL DESIGN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RESTLESS LEGS SYNDROME; SHAM PROCEDURE; THERAPY EFFECT; THYROID DISEASE; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TREATMENT DURATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ADOLESCENT; CHRONIC PAIN; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PAIN MEASUREMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CHRONIC PAIN; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LOW BACK PAIN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PAIN MEASUREMENT; TRANSCRANIAL DIRECT CURRENT STIMULATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929466733     PISSN: 09598146     EISSN: 17561833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.h1640     Document Type: Article

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