Home-Based Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Reduced Fibromyalgia Pain More Than A Sham Treatment 

A device for home use that provides self-applied anodal transcranial direct current stimulation (A-tDCS) reduced fibromyalgia pain more than a sham treatment, according to a randomized clinical trial in Brazil involving 112 women. Exercise instructions and pain neuroscience education were included in the study. Those who used the A-tDCS device had a greater reduction in pain and less pain-related disability, according to the study. The trial found that A-tDCS, along with exercise and pain neuroscience education (PNE), improved disability due to pain.

Fibromyalgia affects 2.0% to 5.8% of the general population and is . . .