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fMRI Study of Expectancy on Acupuncture Treatment Outcomes in Knee OA

NCT01040754 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 144

Last updated 2016-03-14

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Summary

The results of the proposed experiments will directly inform clinicians who treat patients with osteoarthritis of the knee about how to maximize the benefits of acupuncture treatments. And because the experiments specifically asks the question of what is the relation between a patient's expectation of how a treatment will relieve their pain and the outcome of the treatment, the results will potentially inform care givers about all treatments for osteoarthritis and other chronic pain disorders. We hypothesize that acupuncture treatment will produce clinically significant analgesia as indicated by lowered sensory ratings of noxious stimuli and endogenous knee pain.

Conditions

  • Osteoarthritis, Knee

Interventions

OTHER

Acupuncture

This study follows a standardized acupuncture protocol for OA knee pain. Approximately 6 acupuncture needles are placed in the skin of the leg for 25 minutes.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

    collaborator NIH

  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    collaborator OTHER

  • Brigham and Women's Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Randy L Gollub, MD, PhD · Massachusetts General Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
TRIPLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
40 Years
Max Age
70 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-06-30
Primary Completion
2015-10-31
Completion
2016-02-29

Countries

  • United States

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