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NCT Number: NCT00333606

Acupuncture and Auditory Evoked Potentials

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

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Key information

Conditions

Evoked Potentials Healthy Volunteers

Age range

20 year–40 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Ernst Moritz Arndt University

Greifswald, 17475, Germany

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: Yes

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

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

Exclusion criteria

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

Treatment and study plan

Acupuncture

Behavioral

Body acupuncture of 1 specific point per trial session

Primary outcomes

  1. Latencies of Auditory Evoked Potentials

    Time frame: before acupuncture stimulation

Secondary outcomes

  1. Pain Intensity

    Time frame: 30 min

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

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Taras Usichenko

Other

Registry information

Official study title

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

Important dates

Study start
2005
Primary completion
2007
Study completion
2009
First posted
Jun 6, 2006
Registry last updated
Oct 22, 2019

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This listing is for discovery and informational purposes only. It is not medical advice, does not guarantee that a study is recruiting, and does not determine eligibility. Contact the study team and a qualified healthcare professional when considering participation.

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