NCT00802165

Effect of Electroacupuncture on Pain Threshold

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 1
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Logan College of Chiropractic · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 10 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Electroacupuncture	Group is given a total of four electroacupuncture treatments to evaluate it's anesthetic effectiveness
DEVICE	Sham electroacupuncture	Sham electroacupuncture treatment gives comparison to the experimental group

Timeline

• Start date: 2008-12-01
• Primary completion: 2009-04-01
• Completion: 2009-04-01
• First posted: 2008-12-04
• Last updated: 2008-12-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States