Effect of Electroacupuncture on Pain Threshold

Pain Clinical Trial

Official title:

Effect of Electroacupuncture on Pain Threshold

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT00802165
• Other study ID #: SR0806080149
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: Phase 1
• First received: December 3, 2008
• Last updated: December 3, 2008
• Start date: December 2008
• Est. completion date: April 2009

Study information

• Verified date: December 2008
• Source: Logan College of Chiropractic
• Contact: John Zhang, MD, PhD
• Phone: 636-230-1920
• Email: john.zhang[@]logan.edu
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: United States: Institutional Review Board
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study is designed to evaluate whether or not electroacupuncture can have an effect on the pain threshold of the subject, as compared to sham treatment.

Description:

This study is utilized to evaluate the what effectiveness electroacupuncture has on pain threshold as compared to sham. The outcome measurement utilized will be a digital algometer. The electroacupuncture treatment will consist of a total of four electroacupuncture treatments stimulating acupuncture points LI4 and LI11, and will be given on the same upper extremity tested by the algometer. The algometer measurements will occur alone on the first week, prior to the treatments on the second and third week, and the final reading alone on the fourth week.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 40
• Est. completion date: April 2009
• Est. primary completion date: April 2009
• Accepts healthy volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 10 Years to 70 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• Normal healthy subjects

Exclusion Criteria:

• Hypertension

• Heart Disease

• Pregnancy

• No spinal manipulation or other treatment or medication that could effect pain threshold

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Subject), Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Pain

Intervention

Device:
• Electroacupuncture
Group is given a total of four electroacupuncture treatments to evaluate it's anesthetic effectiveness
• Sham electroacupuncture
Sham electroacupuncture treatment gives comparison to the experimental group

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
United States	Logan College of Chiropractic	Chesterfield	Missouri

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Logan College of Chiropractic

Country where clinical trial is conducted

United States, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Digital Algometer		Four Weeks	No