# Optimizing Rehabilitation for Phantom Limb Pain Using Mirror Therapy and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)

> **NCT02487966** · NA · ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · sponsor: **Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital** · enrollment: 132 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Phantom Limb Pain
- Amputation, Traumatic

## Interventions

- **DEVICE:** transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS): active (Soterix ©)
- **BEHAVIORAL:** Mirror Therapy: active
- **DEVICE:** transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS): sham (Soterix ©)
- **BEHAVIORAL:** Mirror Therapy: Sham

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT02487966
- **Lead sponsor:** Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING
- **Start date:** 2015-07
- **Primary completion:** 2020-03-27
- **Final completion:** 2026-12-21
- **Target enrollment:** 132 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2025-09-25

## Collaborators

- [object Object]

## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02487966

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT02487966, "Optimizing Rehabilitation for Phantom Limb Pain Using Mirror Therapy and Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS)". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-22 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT02487966. Licensed CC0.

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