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CompletedNCT01614639

Brain Imaging Study of Acupuncture in Chronic Low Back Pain

A Physiological fMRI Study of Acupuncture and Perceptions of Pain in Chronic Low Back Pain Patients.

Status
Completed
Phase
N/A
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
82 (actual)
Sponsor
Brigham and Women's Hospital · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
18 Years – 60 Years
Healthy volunteers
Accepted

Summary

We are doing this research study to learn about how acupuncture treatment works. This study is being done to look at changes in the brain, NOT to treat pain. We want to learn about brain activity during acupuncture. We will look at brain activity when a heating device touches the skin of a subject before and after the subject has acupuncture, to see what changes.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
PROCEDUREAcupunctureA licensed acupuncturist will perform acupuncture for two 30 minute sessions.

Timeline

Start date
2012-01-01
Primary completion
2017-05-01
Completion
2017-10-01
First posted
2012-06-08
Last updated
2017-11-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT01614639. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.

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