An observational study in Pain, sponsored by Community Medical Foundation for Patient Safety. Completed. Open to participants aged 13 Years and older, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2018-03-09.
Sponsored by Community Medical Foundation for Patient Safety · Observational
Can acupuncture be quantified. This study sets out to observe if there are measurable effects of fine motor control that are attributable to acupuncture. The study utilizes an FDA approved medical device for measurements of fine motor control called the RU-Fit.
Context: Currently there is a high demand for evidence-based research in the field of Acupuncture. The medical practice of acupuncture has existed for thousands of years and purportedly has been successful at managing a wide array of health conditions. Producing objective/quantitative data that rule out any possibility of placebo effect has proved burdensome.
Objectives: This exploratory study seeks to determine if physiological measurements of fine motor control can be changed after receiving an acupuncture treatment. Can this change demonstrate the effectiveness of the treatment? Design, Setting, Participants, Interventions: This study looked at acupuncture patients undergoing treatments for pain relief, and general minor injury to determine whether or not observable changes could be detected in the fine motor control of the hands after acupuncture treatments.
Two groups of 50 subjects were used in the study. The test group was given a fine motor control test prior to and after their acupuncture therapy to determine if any changes could be measured.
The control group was given two fine motor control tests without acupuncture treatment with a 40 minute delay between the tests to replicate the test group timing. This study was conducted at a non-profit community clinic between the dates of 9/28/16 \& 2/19/17.
Study participants were selected from the acupuncture patient population freely visiting the clinic. Patients were asked if they would be interested in a research study. They were informed about the objectives of the study, what their role would be and that this was a free non-invasive test that they would undergo before and after their regular acupuncture treatment. Before inclusion into the program, patients are provided with informed consent forms and after agreeing and signing the form, individuals then become participants.
Exclusion Criteria:
RU-Fit gathers measurements of fine motor control were gathered from this group before and after acupuncture treatments.
Procedure: Acupuncture · Device: RU-Fit
This group received no intervention but still had measurements of fine motor control gathered from RU-Fit medical device.
Device: RU-Fit
Alternative medicine therapeutic intervention
FDA approved medical device for the measurement of fine motor control
Assessing Changes in Fine Motor Control from Acupuncture
Fine Motor Control measurements (probability percentage of normal capability) from RU-Fit, FDA approved medical device
Time frame: Before and after acupuncture treatment or space of 40 minutes for control group between testing
No study locations are listed for this record.
Plan to share: No — Information will be shared regarding measurements that were obtained from medical device testing such as fine motor control
No publications or documents are linked to this record.
This study is completed, as verified in Mar 2018. You cannot join it, but the record below documents what was studied.
Get an email when the registry record changes — status, dates, results — or when someone posts here.
Sign in to followQuestions and observations about this study, from anyone following it. Not medical advice, and not a channel to the study team — their contact details are on the registry record.
Sign in to join the discussion. Reading takes no account; posting does. You choose a display name, and a pseudonym is the default.
Nothing here yet. If you are running this trial, taking part in it, or weighing whether to, this is the place to say so.