Acupuncture and Auditory Evoked Potentials

Taras Usichenko60 enrolled

Overview

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

Study Type

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Purpose

BASIC_SCIENCE

Masking

DOUBLE

Enrollment

Conditions

Evoked Potentials Healthy Volunteers

Interventions

AcupunctureBEHAVIORAL

Body acupuncture of 1 specific point per trial session

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 20 YearsMax age: 40 YearsHealthy volunteers:

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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

Locations (1)

Ernst Moritz Arndt University

Greifswald, Germany

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Latencies of Auditory Evoked Potentials

Time frame: before acupuncture stimulation

Secondary Outcomes

Pain Intensity

Visual Analogue Scale 0-100 mm, where 0=no pain, and 100=maximal pain

Time frame: 30 min

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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