N/A
N=60
Acupuncture and Auditory Evoked Potentials
Evoked Potentials · Healthy Volunteers
Bottom Line
View on ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT00333606 ↗Enrolled (actual)
60
Serious AEs
0.0%
Results posted
Oct 2019
Primary outcome: Primary: Latencies of Auditory Evoked Potentials — 255; 255 ms
Study Design & Population
- Study type
- Interventional
- Phase
- N/A
- Interventions
- Acupuncture (Behavioral)
- Age
- Adult · 20+ yrs
- Sex
- All
- Sponsor
- Taras Usichenko
- Primary completion
- Feb 2007
Outcome Measures
| Outcome | Result | p-value |
|---|---|---|
| PRIMARY Latencies of Auditory Evoked Potentials |
255; 255 | — |
| SECONDARY Pain Intensity |
40; 20 | — |
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
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
Exclusion Criteria
- Pregnant or nursing females.
- History of peripheral neuropathy
- Abnormal skin conditions (infection, scars, psoriasis, eczema)
- Inflamed site of acupuncture within 1 week
Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT00333606). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication.