ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2020
Entraining Alpha Activity Using Visual Stimulation in Patients With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: A Feasibility Study.
Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Pain Reduction With an Immersive Digital Therapeutic Tool in Women Living With Endometriosis-Related Pelvic Pain: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2022Trial
- Shared neural signatures in Functional Neurological Disorder and Chronic Pain: a multimodal narrative review.BMJ neurology open · 2025Article
- A High-Resolution LED Stimulator for Steady-State Visual Stimulation: Customizable, Affordable, and Open Source.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The impact of an immersive digital therapeutic tool on experimental pain: a pilot randomized within-subject experiment with an active control condition.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- The efficacy of sensory neural entrainment on acute and chronic pain: A systematic review and meta-analysis.British journal of pain · 2023Article
- Effectiveness of transcranial alternating current stimulation for controlling chronic pain: a systematic review.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Review
- A feasibility study of pre-sleep audio and visual alpha brain entrainment for people with chronic pain and sleep disturbance.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Brainwave entrainment for the treatment of chronic pain: comment onBritish journal of pain · 2021Article
- Entraining Alpha Activity Using Visual Stimulation in Patients With Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: A Feasibility Study.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2020Article
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Abstract
Entraining alpha activity with rhythmic visual, auditory, and electrical stimulation can reduce experimentally induced pain. However, evidence for alpha entrainment and pain reduction in patients with chronic pain is limited. This feasibility study investigated whether visual alpha stimulation can increase alpha power in patients with chronic musculoskeletal pain and, secondarily, if chronic pain was reduced following stimulation. In a within-subject design, 20 patients underwent 4-min periods of stimulation at 10 Hz (alpha), 7 Hz (high-theta, control), and 1 Hz (control) in a pseudo-randomized order. Patients underwent stimulation both sitting and standing and verbally rated their pain before and after each stimulation block on a 0-10 numerical rating scale. Global alpha power was significantly higher during 10 Hz compared to 1 Hz stimulation when patients were standing (
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