Acupuncture and Auditory Evoked Potentials

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Healthy Volunteers; Evoked Potentials
• Interventions: Behavioral: Acupuncture

• Registration Number: NCT00333606
• Lead Sponsor: Taras Usichenko

Brief Summary

To investigate whether body acupuncture of acupuncture points specific for hearing influences the auditory avoked potentials in comparison to puncture of non-specific acupuncture points

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2005-01
• Study First Submitted: 2006-06-03
• Study First Submitted QC: 2006-06-03
• Study First Posted: 2006-06-06
• Primary Completion: 2007-02
• Study Completion: 2009-03
• Results First Submitted: 2011-02-25
• Status Verified: 2017-04
• Results First Submitted QC: 2019-10-18
• Last Update Submitted: 2019-10-18
• Results First Posted: 2019-10-22
• Last Update Posted: 2019-10-22

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

1. Healthy volunteers aged 20-40 years
2. Physical status I according to American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) classification
3. No history of nervous or psychiatric disease
4. Normal audiogram before the study
5. No chronic consume of analgesics, anticoagulants and/or antiplatelet agents, sedatives or alcohol
6. No local infection at the site of acupuncture
7. Volunteers who have given informed consent

Exclusion Criteria

1. Pregnant or nursing females.
2. History of peripheral neuropathy
3. Abnormal skin conditions (infection, scars, psoriasis, eczema)
4. Inflamed site of acupuncture within 1 week

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: CROSSOVER

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Verum acupuncture	Acupuncture	Acupuncture of specific acupuncture points
Sham acupuncture	Acupuncture	Acupuncture of non-specific acupuncture points

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Latencies of Auditory Evoked Potentials	before acupuncture stimulation

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Pain Intensity	30 min	Visual Analogue Scale 0-100 mm, where 0=no pain, and 100=maximal pain

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Ernst Moritz Arndt University; 🇩🇪 Greifswald, Germany