Effects of Acupuncture on the Auditory Evoked Potentials: a Randomized Volunteer Crossover Study

Taras Usichenko1 site in 1 country60 target enrollmentJanuary 2005

ConditionsEvoked Potentials Healthy Volunteers

Overview

Phase: Not Applicable
Intervention: Not specified
Conditions: Evoked Potentials
Sponsor: Taras Usichenko
Enrollment: 60
Locations: 1
Primary Endpoint: Latencies of Auditory Evoked Potentials
Status: Completed
Last Updated: 6 years ago

Overview Investigators Eligibility Criteria Outcomes Sites Similar Trials

Overview

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

Registry

clinicaltrials.gov

Start Date

January 2005

End Date

March 2009

Last Updated

6 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Study Design

Crossover

Sex

All

Investigators

Sponsor

Taras Usichenko

Responsible Party

Sponsor Investigator

Principal Investigator

Taras Usichenko

Dr. Taras Usichenko

University Medicine Greifswald

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

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