Can magnetic pulses ease nerve pain in spinal injury?
NCT ID NCT06197113
First seen Jun 27, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026
Summary
This study tested two types of magnetic brain stimulation (TMS) to see if they can reduce nerve pain in people with spinal cord injury. 26 adults with long-term nerve pain that didn't respond to medication took part. The goal was to measure changes in pain severity, daily function, and mood.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- magnetic brain stimulation (TMS)
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could offer a drug-free option to reduce nerve pain and improve daily function in people with spinal cord injury.
- What could go wrong
- This is a small, completed trial with only 26 participants, so results may not apply to everyone. The effect on pain may be modest or temporary.
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Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
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Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
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26 people
The number who actually took part.
- Started
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Jul 2022
- Finished
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Jul 2023
- Lead sponsor
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Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
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18 to 65 years
- Sex
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Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
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Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
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Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Between the ages of 18-65, * Traumatic/Non-traumatic spinal cord injury (\>4 months), * For \>3 months, despite pharmacological treatment (no dose or medication changes have been made for at least 1 month), Brief Pain Inventory (BPI)-Part 1 average pain score is ≥4/10, neuropathic pain at the injury level and/or below (DN4 ≥4 /10) patients Exclusion Criteria: * Pain attributed to causes other than neuropathic pain (e.g. musculoskeletal pain, pain resulting from diabetic polyneuropathy), Having a history of epilepsy, dementia, cognitive impairment, neurodegenerative disease, * Having a history of psychiatric illness (except reactive depression), * Having a lesion in the brain due to vascular, traumatic, tumoral or infectious reasons, * Having a history of alcoholism, * Having an intracranial metallic implant, * Having a cardiac pacemaker, * Pregnant patients
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Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
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Contacts and locations
Locations
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Ankara Bilkent City Hospital
Ankara, 06800, Turkey (Türkiye)
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