Acupuncture and Auditory Evoked Potentials

Taras Usichenko

Status: Completed

Conditions: Healthy Volunteers; Evoked Potentials

Treatments: Behavioral: Acupuncture

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00333606

III UV 12/06

Details and patient eligibility

About

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

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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

Trial design

Primary purpose: Basic Science

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

Verum acupuncture

Experimental group

Description:

Acupuncture of specific acupuncture points

Treatment:

Behavioral: Acupuncture

Sham acupuncture

Sham Comparator group

Description:

Acupuncture of non-specific acupuncture points

Treatment:

Behavioral: Acupuncture