Active and sham transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) improved quality of life in female patients with fibromyalgia.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Fibromyalgia (FM) is a chronic pain syndrome with a strong impact on quality of life (QoL). Treatment of this condition remains a challenge, due to the scarce evidence for the effectiveness of the therapeutic approaches available. Current attention is focused on transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), which has yielded promising results for pain treatment. Rather than focusing only on pain relief, in this study, we aimed to determine how active or sham tDCS (over three cortical targets -the primary motor cortex, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the operculo-insular cortex-) affect QoL in patients with FM.

Methods

Using a double-blind, placebo-controlled design, we applied fifteen tDCS sessions of 20' to initial 130 participants (randomized to any of the

SUBMITTER: Samartin-Veiga N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9250466 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature