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Rapid Extremity Pain Relief by Battlefield Acupuncture After Orthopedic Surgery

NCT02093637 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 279

Last updated 2017-08-11

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine if the addition of Battlefield Auricular Acupuncture (BFA) to standard therapy causes reduction in pain, medication use, time to ambulation without assistance, hours missed from work and increases quality of life after lower extremity surgery at two Air Force Medical Centers.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Placebo acupuncture

Placebo Comparator

OTHER

Battlefield Acupuncture

Experimental

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Mike O'Callaghan Military Hospital

    lead FED

Principal Investigators

  • Paul Crawford, MD · MOFMC

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-08-31
Primary Completion
2017-02-28
Completion
2017-02-28

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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