Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

2 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Medicine

Home-Based Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Device Development: An Updated Protocol Used at Home in Healthy Subjects and Fibromyalgia Patients

Fabiana Carvalho^1,2, Aline Patrícia Brietzke^1,2, Assunta Gasparin^1,2, Franciele Pereira dos Santos^2,3, Rafael Vercelino⁴, Rafael Firmino Ballester^2,3, Paulo Roberto Stefani Sanches⁵, Danton Pereira da Silva Jr⁵, Iraci L. S. Torres^1,6, Felipe Fregni^7,8, Wolnei Caumo^1,2,9,10

¹Post-Graduate Program in Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), ²Laboratory of Pain & Neuromodulation, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), ³School of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), ⁴Faculdade de Desenvolvimento do Rio Grande do Sul (FADERGS), Health and Wellness School Laureate International Universities, ⁵Biomedical Engineering Department, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), ⁶Pharmacology Department, Instituto de Ciências Básicas da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), ⁷Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, ⁸Spaulding Neuromodulation Center, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, ⁹Pain and Palliative Care Service, Hospital de Clínicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), ¹⁰Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)

This study provides an updated home-based tDCS protocol that enables subjects to receive the beneficial effects of tDCS at home with an easy to use device with settings to control the use and dosage, enhancing the feasibility for long-term use at home.

Neuroscience

Using Home-based, Remotely Supervised, Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation for Phantom Limb Pain

Kevin Pacheco-Barrios^*1,2, Daniela Martinez-Magallanes^*1, Cristina Xicota Naqui^1,3, Marianna Daibes¹, Elly Pichardo¹, Alejandra Cardenas-Rojas¹, David Crandell⁴, Anahita Dua⁵, Abhishek Datta^6,7, Wolnei Caumo^8,9,10, Felipe Fregni¹

¹Neuromodulation Center and Center for Clinical Research Learning, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, ²Vicerrectorado de Investigación, Unidad de Investigación para la Generación y Síntesis de Evidencias en Salud, Universidad San Ignacio de Loyola, ³Nursing Department, Universitat Internacional de Catalunya, ⁴Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Harvard Medical School, ⁵Division of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, ⁶Research and Development, Soterix Medical, ⁷City College of New York, ⁸Post-Graduate Program in Medical Sciences, School of Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), ⁹Laboratory of Pain & Neuromodulation, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA), ¹⁰Pain and Palliative Care Service, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA)

The goal of this study is to describe a protocol for the home-based delivery of remotely supervised transcranial direct current stimulation (RS-tDCS) conserving the standard procedures of in-clinic practice, including safety, reproducibility, and tolerability. The participants included will be patients with phantom limb pain (PLP).