For example, here's a clip of a safety study from The Journal of Pain:
(314) Safety of the transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS): evaluation of 815 tDCS sessions in 100 chronic- pain patients H Knotkova, A Nafissi, Z Leuschner, D Das, I Dhokal, and R Cruciani; Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY
There is a growing body of evidence that tDCS can alleviate pain in patients with various pain syndromes, suggesting clinical potential of tDCS in pain man- agement. The purpose of this retrospective study was to evaluate safety and tolerability of tDCS in patients who underwent tDCS treatment at the Institute for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation, Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, between November 2008 and Sep- tember 2010. TDCS was delivered with Phoressor II 850 PM in five 20-min ses- sions on 5 consecutive days, at 2 mA, applying either anodal (excitatory) tDCS over the motor cortex or cathodal (inhibitory) tDCS over the somatosen- sory cortex, using 2 saline-soaked electrodes of 36cm2. One hundred patients with various chronic pain syndromes received 815 tDCS sessions (639 anodal and 176 cathodal) delivered as 172 five-day treatment blocks (131 anodal, 35 cathodal; 80 patients received only anodal treatment blocks, 14 patients only cathodal blocks, 6 received both). Neither anodal nor cathodal tDCS resulted in any serious adverse events (AEs). The most frequently reported non-serious AEs were: transient Tingling/Burning/Itching under the electrode during the stimulation in 27 (4.2%) of anodal and 14 (7.9%) of cathodal sessions; transient Headache after the stimulation: 16 (2.5%) anodal, 2 (1.1%) cathodal); Fatigue: 7 (1.1%) anodal, 0 cathodal; Nausea: 4 (0.6%) anodal, 1 (0.6%) cathodal; Dis- comfort: 3 (0.5%) anodal, 1 (0.6%) cathodal; Dizziness: 1 (0.2%) anodal, 4 (2.3%) cathodal; Insomnia: in 3 (0.5%) of anodal and 1 (0.6%) of cathodal ses- sions. The adherence to the tDCS treatment was very good: patients completed 92% (111 of 121) of anodal five-day treatment blocks and 100% (35 of 35) of cathodal blocks, indicating high acceptability of tDCS procedure. In conclusion, the findings contribute to the evidence on tDCS safety, supporting clinical potential of tDCS in chronic pain management.