Personalized Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (PrTMS)

Description

This study aims to assess the efficacy of Personalized Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (PrTMS) therapy to reduce chronic neck for military health system beneficiaries.

Conditions

Neck Pain

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

This study aims to assess the efficacy of Personalized Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (PrTMS) therapy to reduce chronic neck for military health system beneficiaries.

Personalized Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (PrTMS) as a Treatment for Chronic Neck Pain

Personalized Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (PrTMS)

Condition
Neck Pain
Intervention / Treatment

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Contacts and Locations

Bethesda

Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20889

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Military health care beneficiary for enrollment.
  • * Over the age of 18 years.
  • * Presence of chronic neck pain for at least 3 months.
  • * History of seizure, bipolar disorder, or schizophrenia.
  • * Unstable heart or pulmonary disease.
  • * Brain tumor, active brain infection, history of cerebral vascular accident (CVA), or penetrating brain injury.
  • * Use of medications that potentially lower seizure threshold without concomitant administration of anticonvulsant drugs that may protect against seizure occurrence.
  • 1. Antiviral medications and antipsychotic medications
  • 2. Recent withdrawal from sedatives
  • 3. Substance abuse of phencyclidine, amphetamines, ketamine, and gammahydroxybutyrate
  • * Not a suitable candidate for the study as determined by the PI.
  • * Pregnancy, breastfeeding, or plans to become pregnant during the course of the study.
  • * Presence of metallic hardware in close contact to the discharging coil (e.g. cochlear implants, internal pulse generator).
  • * Presence of implanted brain electrodes (cortical or deep-brain electrodes).
  • * Potential participants who score above a certain suicide relevant survey score on the Suicide Behaviors Questionnaire-Revised (SBQ-R), or are judged by expert clinicians to be a serious risk of harm to self, will be excluded.
  • * Participants cannot have undergone a previous TMS treatment within the last 30 days before the start of study treatment.
  • * Participants must have reliable and consistent access to the internet to complete surveys when not present in the clinic.
  • * Participants must not have a clinical diagnosis of insomnia.
  • * Participants can not be actively partaking in a substance abuse program.

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years to 65 Years

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine,

Oluwaseyi Gbade-Alabi, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

Study Record Dates

2025-12