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Auricular Acupressure in Prehabilitation

NCT06516198 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2025-12-09

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Summary

Complementary medicine is recognized for its ability to enhance appetite, increase energy, reduce anxiety, decrease pain, and improve sleep, among many other benefits. Acupuncture is among the most frequent types of complementary medicine practiced in the US, and Medicare currently includes back pain as a reimbursable indication for this therapy. Acupuncture-related therapies may enhance efforts at prehabilitation in candidates for major lung resection.

Conditions

  • Frailty
  • Thoracic
  • Prehabilitation
  • Lung Surgery
  • Wedge Resection
  • Segmentectomy
  • Lobectomy
  • Pneumonectomy; Status

Interventions

OTHER

Auricular Acupressure

Seeds will be placed during the clinic visit by the acupuncturist or the research associate according to the group the patient was assigned to. The care partner will observe the placement. A photograph of the seed placement will be taken and given to the care partner and to the patient after the relevant points are labeled by number or letter. The method of pressing is demonstrated for 1 one of the seeds, the care partner practices pressing on 2 other seeds, and the patient practices pressing on the remaining 2 seeds. Pressing consists of applying pressure, gradually increasing the pressure until the patient expresses discomfort, and maintaining that pressure until 2 minutes have passed. After pressing has been performed for each seed, the seeds are removed in clinic prior to clinic discharge.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Chicago

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Maria Lucia Madariaga, MD · University of Chicago

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
50 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-07-21
Primary Completion
2027-06-20
Completion
2027-06-20

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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