# Motor Cortex Plasticity and the Effect of Deep Intramuscular Needling Stimulation Therapy (DIMST) in Osteoarthritis Pain

> **NCT01855958** · NA · COMPLETED · sponsor: **Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre** · enrollment: 26 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Knee Osteoarthritis
- Chronic Pain

## Interventions

- **PROCEDURE:** DIMST
- **PROCEDURE:** Placebo-sham

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT01855958
- **Lead sponsor:** Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Start date:** 2012-02
- **Primary completion:** 2012-06
- **Final completion:** 2012-07
- **Target enrollment:** 26 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2017-09-15

## Collaborators

- [object Object]

## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01855958

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT01855958, "Motor Cortex Plasticity and the Effect of Deep Intramuscular Needling Stimulation Therapy (DIMST) in Osteoarthritis Pain". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-05-28 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT01855958. Licensed CC0.

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