Taking peopleNo phase
Sacral Neuromodulation as Treatment for Chronic Constipation
Key facts
- Who runs it
- McMaster University
- Where
- Canada1 site in 1 countryChoose a country to see its sites
- Trial code
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 20 people, planned
- Started
- 8 Sept 2019
- Expected to end
- 1 Feb 2027
- Type of study
- Interventional
- Treatments tested
- Low Level Laser Therapy
- Record updated
- 5 April 2022
Who can take part
- Age
- 6 years to 70 years
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Cannot take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- Patients with severe chronic refractory constipation
- Must have undergone high resolution colonic manometry that shows abnormal coordination between colonic motility and ano-rectal function
Who cannot take part
- Patients who take NSAIDS or steroids
- Known malignancies in the area of treatment
- Active bleeding in area of treatment
- Active deep vein thrombosis
- Pregnant patients
- When tatoos are present at area of treatment
- Patients that are light sensitive
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 6 and 70 years old?
This trial has no sites in United States.
It has sites in one country. Choose a country to see its sites.
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
The objective of this study is to study if low level laser therapy will do more good than harm for patients with severe chronic refractory constipation. It is a proof of concept study without a placebo arm.
The group in the trial
- Refractory Constipation with LLLTTreatment being tested
Low level laser therapy (LLLT) will be administered to patients with severe refractory chronic constipation
Treatment: Low Level Laser Therapy
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT03819062, who can take part
- Record updated
- 5 April 2022