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Tai Chi Intervention and Brain Imaging Study Among Fibromyalgia Patients and Healthy Controls

NCT02407665 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 55

Last updated 2016-02-10

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This exploratory study proposal is the first pilot brain imaging study to determine if Tai Chi can modulate brain resting state functional connectivity (rsFC) and brain morphometry among fibromyalgia (FM) patients and healthy controls.

Conditions

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Tai Chi

Each Tai Chi session will last 60 minutes and will continue twice a week for 12 weeks. Our instructors, who have extensive experience conducting Tai Chi training programs, will follow the standardized Tai Chi protocol. We will also provide the participants with printed materials on FM and the Tai Chi Mind-Body program, including Tai Chi principles, practicing techniques, and safety precautions for participants with FM

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Massachusetts General Hospital

    collaborator OTHER

  • Tufts Medical Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Chenchen Wang, MD, MSc · Tufts University School of Medicine

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
21 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2015-03-31
Primary Completion
2015-12-31
Completion
2015-12-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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