Recruiting

Magnetic Field Therapy

Sponsor:

Weintraub, Michael I., MD, FACP, FAAN

Code:

NCT00445133

Conditions

Back Pain

Neck Pain

Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Magnetic Sleep Pad

Study Details

Brief summary:

HYPTHOTHESIS:

The researchers hypothesize that application of active magnetic therapy vs. sham utilized while individuals sleep can reduce neuropathic pain in the spine and improve the quality of sleep. The null hypothesis is that treatment of subjects with spine pain with exposure to permanent/static magnetic fields has no measurable effect on neuropathic pain scores or quality of sleep scores.

Conditions

Back Pain

Neck Pain

Sleep Initiation and Maintenance Disorders

Study ID

NCT00445133

Start date

Feb, 2007

Status verified date

Sep, 2007

Completion date

Dec, 2007

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Female or male subjects age 18-80.
  • Capable of understanding and complying with study protocols.
  • Chronic cervical, thoracic or lumbar pain for at least six months.
  • Sleep difficulties and/or insomnia

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Unable to understand informed consent (mental retardation, psychosis, communicative impairment).
  • Cardiac pacemaker or other mechanical internal devices.
  • Tumor in the spine/history of malignancy.
  • Pregnancy.
  • Prior spine surgery

Study Design

Enrollment

80 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Interventions

Magnetic Sleep Pad

Primary outcome measure

  • VAS Pain scores/Pittsburgh Sleep scores/Insomnia sleep scores/SF 15 pain descriptor scores/PGIC/ [ Time Frame: undefined ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Michael I. Weintraub, MD

914-941-0788miwneuro@pol.net

Susan E Wolert

914-941-0788miwneuro@pol.net

Locations

Dr. Michael I . Weintraub

Recruiting

Briarcliff Manor, New York, United States, 10510

Contacts

Michael I Weintraub, MD

914-941-0788miwneuro@pol.net

Susan E Wolert

914-941-0788miwneuro@pol.net

Principal Investigator:

Michael I. Weintraub, MD

More Information

Sponsor

Weintraub, Michael I., MD, FACP, FAAN

Last update posted

Sep 27, 2007

Last verified

Sep, 2007

Keywords

  • Neck Pain/Lumbar pain/Magnets/sleep deficiency/ insomnia/

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Weintraub, Michael I., MD, FACP, FAAN on 2007-09-27.