Status:
UNKNOWN
Testing Protocol to Efficiently Induce Itch
Lead Sponsor:
Aalborg University
Conditions:
Itch
Eligibility:
All Genders
18-80 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
This subproject aims to evaluate a new nerve excitability protocol to induce itch in healthy controls by electrical stimulation. Itch has many similarities with pain, and the nerve fibers that mediate...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Healthy men and women in the age 18-80 years who speak and understand
Exclusion
- Pregnancy or breast feeding
- Drug addiction defined as the use of cannabis, opioids or other drugs
- Previous and present neurologic, musculoskeletal or mental illnesses (e.g., epilepsy, neuropathy, fibromyalgia and depression)
- Skin diseases
- Past history of conditions possibly leading to neuropathy
- Inability to cooperate
- Current use of medications that may affect the study, e.g., analgesics
- Previous traumatic experience of an electrical accident
- Consumption of alcohol or painkillers within the last 24 hours
- Participation in other pain studies throughout the study period
- Patients with cardiac diseases (e.g., pacemaker).
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
November 25 2021
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
December 20 2023
Estimated Enrollment :
20 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT05195177
Start Date
November 25 2021
End Date
December 20 2023
Last Update
August 2 2023
Active Locations (1)
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Aalborg University
Aalborg, Aalborg Ø, Denmark, 9220