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Brain Imaging Study of Acupuncture in Chronic Low Back Pain

NCT01614639 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 82

Last updated 2017-11-29

No results posted yet for this study

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

  • Low Back Pain
  • Back Pain Lower Back Chronic
  • Low Back Pain, Recurrent

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Acupuncture

A licensed acupuncturist will perform acupuncture for two 30 minute sessions.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

    collaborator NIH

  • Brigham and Women's Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Robert R Edwards, Ph.D. · Brigham and Women's Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-01-31
Primary Completion
2017-05-31
Completion
2017-10-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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