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Mirthful Laughter and Muscle Soreness / Pain

NCT02896075 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2021-04-08

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Summary

The purpose of this study is first to investigate the effect of a controlled intervention with a comedy video on pain tolerance in a social setting while quantitatively measuring laughter in a young healthy population experiencing delayed onset muscle soreness. The comedy intervention will be compared to a control of watching a documentary. The second aim is to examine to what extent various methods of eliciting pain would cause physiological responses that confound the interpretation of a pain stimulus.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

30 Minute Comedy Video

The intervention is a 30 minute video of a comedy

OTHER

30 Minute Documentary Video

The intervention is a 30 minute video of an uninteresting documentary

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Texas at Austin

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Hirofumi Tanaka, PhD · University of Texas at Austin

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
40 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2016-08-01
Primary Completion
2017-09-01
Completion
2017-09-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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Diseases

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