NCT04539704

Assessing Impacts of Static Magnetic Fields on Peripheral Pulses and Skin Blood Flow

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 12 (actual)
• Sponsor: Nova Southeastern University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The purpose of this research study is to investigate and determine the effects of static magnetic fields produced by a small magnet on peripheral pulses and skin blood flow.

Detailed description

A specific neodymium magnet and sham device will be placed on certain sites near the ulnar and medial arteries and the effect of such placement on peripheral pulses assessed via PPG on fingers and on skin blood flow via laser Doppler perfusion determined. These assessments will be made while healthy subjects are lying supine on a padded examination table over a time interval of about 45-60 minutes. In addition to the impact that either the magnet or the sham devices have, the pulse and skin blood flow patterns and features will be analyzed from the point of view of sequential variability with and eye toward developing related parameters to potentially improve such variability.

Conditions

• Arterial Stiffness
• Magnetic Field Exposure
• Peripheral Arterial Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	magnet and sham	In same subject some areas will have magnet and others will have sham

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-02-01
• Primary completion: 2024-12-31
• Completion: 2024-12-31
• First posted: 2020-09-07
• Last updated: 2025-06-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States

Regulatory

• FDA-regulated device study