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Skin Surface's Temperature Changes When Auricular Acupressure at Cervical Vertebra Acupoints in Healthy Volunteers

NCT05578040 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 60

Last updated 2023-10-23

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Summary

Auricular acupressure is one of the acupuncture techniques on the ear, which is a method of impacting on acupoints with force and without using needles to help diagnose and treat physical and psychosomatic dysfunctions. Some studies prove that the acupoints on the pinna have a corresponding relationship with the areas of the body, and when acting on the acupoints can change the temperature of the corresponding area. Chronic neck pain is closely related to the decline in subcutaneous microcirculation, where heat transfer from deep within the body to the surface of the skin is carried out by the dermal vascular system. When blood flow through the venous network is high, heat is carried from the deep to the skin and vice versa. Therefore, to understand the role of cervical vertebra acupoints in neck pain, the study wants to demonstrate the correlation when auricular acupressure at cervical vertebra acupoints and the skin surface temperature of the neck area.

Conditions

  • Healthy Volunteers

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Auricular acupressure

To conduct this intervention, we used adhesive patches without Vaccaria seed to sham auricular acupressure at the cervical vertebra acupoint in the first trial phase and auricular acupressure at the cervical vertebra acupoint in the other two trial phases in 2 groups of auricular acupressure acupoints of the left and right cervical vertebra.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Bui Pham Minh Man

    lead OTHER

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
BASIC_SCIENCE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-10-01
Primary Completion
2023-06-30
Completion
2023-06-30

Countries

  • Vietnam

Study Locations

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