The Effect of Acupuncture Treatment on the Perception of Pain and Coping With Pain

Sheba Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Pain

Treatments: Procedure: acupuncture

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00369902

SHEBA-05-3817-OG-CTIL

Details and patient eligibility

About

The Purpose of this study is to evaluate whether cognitive and emotional components take part in the positive acupuncture effect on pain.

Full description

The effect of acupuncture on pain intensity has been already investigated and confirmed. Recent publication (Pariente J., et a., 2005) indicated that acupuncture may affect midbrain areas, that are associated with cognitive control of pain.

The Pain Self Regulation Model (Levental, 1980)distinguishes between emotional response pain representations and cognitive pain representations. According to this model, emotional and cognitive pain representations leads to a new (cognitive or emotional) evaluation of the pain, that affects its perception and the ability to cope with it (Levental at al., 2001).

This study will try to assess the hypothesis that acupuncture treatment is involved in this process.

The study is designed as pilot study, limited to 45 patients.

Enrollment: 41 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients suffering from pain,who are reffered for acupuncture treatment,and consented to participate in this study

Exclusion criteria

• children under 18 years of age