# Project Relief: Developing Brain Stimulation as a Treatment for Chronic Pain

> **NCT04156802** · NA · COMPLETED · sponsor: **Wake Forest University Health Sciences** · enrollment: 38 (actual)

## Conditions studied

- Chronic Pain
- Chronic Lower Back Pain
- Back Pain
- Opioid Use
- Opiate Dependence
- Pain, Chronic
- Neuropathic Pain
- Chemotherapy-induced Peripheral Neuropathy

## Interventions

- **DEVICE:** Real TBS to the mPFC
- **DEVICE:** Sham TBS to the mPFC
- **DEVICE:** Real TBS to the MC
- **DEVICE:** Sham TBS to the MC

## Key facts

- **NCT ID:** NCT04156802
- **Lead sponsor:** Wake Forest University Health Sciences
- **Sponsor class:** OTHER
- **Phase:** NA
- **Study type:** INTERVENTIONAL
- **Status:** COMPLETED
- **Start date:** 2020-06-15
- **Primary completion:** 2022-07-06
- **Final completion:** 2022-07-06
- **Target enrollment:** 38 (ACTUAL)
- **Last updated:** 2023-05-12


## Primary source

ClinicalTrials.gov registry: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04156802

## Citation

> US National Library of Medicine, ClinicalTrials.gov registration NCT04156802, "Project Relief: Developing Brain Stimulation as a Treatment for Chronic Pain". Retrieved via AI Analytics 2026-06-03 from https://api.ai-analytics.org/clinical/NCT04156802. Licensed CC0.

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