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Effectiveness of Transcranial Direct Current in Patients With Persistent COVID-19 With Headaches and Chronic Pain.

Effectiveness of Transcranial Direct Current (tDCS) Treatment in Patients With Persistent Covid Who Present Headaches and Chronic Body Pain.

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 15 Oct 2026

Brief summary (registry, in English)

This study aims to verify the efficacy/effectiveness of treatment with transcranial direct current stimulation (TDCS) in patients with Long Covid who experience headaches, migraines, and chronic pain, such as arthralgia and myalgia, as well as sleep problems. Transcranial direct current stimulation is used in the field of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, with results that have proven to be effective for treating patients suffering from symptoms like migraines, headaches, chronic pain, fibromyalgia, or chronic neuropathic pain and insomnia. As you can see, in the case of patients with Long Covid, we find several of these symptoms, so it is suggested that if transcranial direct current therapy (TDCS) gives such good results in relieving these symptoms, why couldn't it give such good results and help just as much in patients with Long Covid, since many of the symptoms are the same, even if the origin or cause is different.

Status (registry)
Recruiting
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
87 (estimated)
First submitted
13 Mar 2023
Start date
1 Apr 2023
Primary completion date
5 Nov 2026
Lead sponsor
Fundación Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir
NCT number
NCT05780450

What you commit to

  • Study type: Interventional
  • Planned participants: 87
  • From 1 Apr 2023 to the primary completion date, 5 Nov 2026
  • 2 sites 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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Prior treatment

  • Patients with brain implants

Other illness

  • Patients without confirmation with positive PCR in the acute phase of Covid-19
  • Patients with Persistent Covid who do not have at least one of these symptoms: migraines, headaches, chronic pain, neuropathic pain, arthralgia, myalgias

Other

  • Patients with pacemaker / defibrillator
  • Patients with cranial fractures
  • Pregnant

Who the study is looking for

  • Patients with Persistent Covid
  • Men and women
  • All ages from 16 years old
  • Patients who passed the Covid in its acute phase in an asymptomatic, mild and severe way.

Age in the registry: 16 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers

Full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov

Sites (2)

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SiteCityCountrySite status
Clínica Paiporta
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PaiportaSpainRecruiting
Escuela de Doctorado. Universidad Católica de Valencia San Vicente Mártir. (Doctoral School. Catholic University of Valencia San Vicente Mártir)
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ValenciaSpainRecruiting

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