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Acupuncture for Treatment of Acute Spinal Cord Injury: an Exploratory/Developmental Study

NCT00432289 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1/PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2010-06-11

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Specific Aim: to implement and evaluate a research protocol for demonstrating the efficacy of Acupuncture Therapy to improve neurological recovery after incomplete SCI compared to a control protocol.

Hypothesis: acupuncture treatment results in greater neurological recovery than a control treatment after an incomplete SCI.

Before conducting a larger, more definitive study, this exploratory and developmental work is focused on assessing whether blinding is possible, reproducibility of the outcome measure, determine enrollment rates and effect sizes and identify clinical resources needed to conduct a larger study.

Conditions

  • Spinal Cord Injury

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Acupuncture

Acupunture treatment 3x per week for 6 weeks.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Craig Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Amit Jha, MD · Craig Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
16 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2006-11-30
Primary Completion
2009-06-30
Completion
2009-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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