CTSDMC FM-TIPS Team
About FM-TIPS
Despite clinical recommendations, non-pharmacological treatments are underutilized for chronic pain. Improving their use in clinical practice could provide additional tools to the patient for pain control. This real-world clinical trial tests if TENS added to physical therapy practice reduces movement-pain and fatigue, and improves adherence to physical therapy in individuals with fibromyalgia.
This study is funded by National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) at the National Institutes of Health. The CTSDMC is the Data Coordinating Center and manages the Central IRB for the study.
Meet Our FM-TIPS Collaborators
Kathleen Sluka, PT, PhD, FAPTA
Dr. Sluka is currently a professor of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Science and Neuroscience and Pharmacology in the Carver College of Medicine at the University of Iowa. She is also a member of the Neuroscience Institute and Pain research Program at the University of Iowa.
Leslie Crofford, MD
Dr. Crofford is currently the Director of the Division of Rheumatology & Immunology, Professor of Pathology, Microbiology and Immunology, Professor of Medicine, and the Wilson Family Chair in Medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
90 %
Retention Rate from Screening to Enrollment
FM-TIPS Study Team
2025
Anticipated Study Completion
FM-TIPS is an active study
Though this study is still active, it is no longer enrolling new participants. For more information about this study please follow the link.
FM-TIPS
FM-TIPS is a real-world pragmatic clinical trial to test if TENS added to physical therapy practice reduces movement pain and fatigue, and improves adherence to physical therapy in individuals with fibromyalgia.