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NCT05563038Recruiting

Scrambler Therapy for Post-Stroke Pain

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 26 Jan 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

The Investigators will enroll patients who have had a stroke and are experiencing post-stroke pain secondary to their infarct and disruption of the sensory system in a research study to compare the effectiveness of Scrambler Therapy to traditional pharmacologic therapies.

Status (registry)
Recruiting
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
100 (estimated)
First submitted
28 Sept 2022
Start date
15 May 2023
Primary completion date
Dec 2027
Lead sponsor
Johns Hopkins University
Diseases
Stroke
NCT number
NCT05563038

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional
  • Planned participants: 100
  • From 15 May 2023 to the primary completion date, Dec 2027
  • 1 site in 1 country
  • Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them

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Who cannot take part

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Other illness

  • Patients with no evidence of stroke on MRI
  • Patients with history of myocardial infarction in the past 6 months
  • Patients with uncontrolled epilepsy

Other

  • Patients with TIA
  • Patients with implantable devices such as pacemakers, defibrillators, spinal cord stimulators
  • Patients with symptomatic brain metastases

Who the study is looking for

  • Men and women over the age of 18 with ischemic or hemorrhagic stroke seen on imaging and a positive finding for pain in the area(s) affected by their stroke location will be included.
  • The patients must be at least one month post-stroke but can otherwise enroll at any point.

Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (1)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital
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BaltimoreUnited StatesRecruiting

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