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

This study has been completed.

First Received: August 29, 2006 Last Updated: July 19, 2009 History of Changes

Sponsors and Collaborators:	Sheba Medical Center Assaf-Harofeh Medical Center
Information provided by:	Sheba Medical Center
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00369902

Purpose

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

Condition	Intervention
Pain	Procedure: acupuncture

Study Type:	Observational
Study Design:	Case-Only, Prospective
Official Title:	Pilot Study on the Effect of Acupuncture Treatment on Pain Perception and on the Ability to Cope With Pain

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MedlinePlus related topics: Acupuncture

U.S. FDA Resources

Further study details as provided by Sheba Medical Center:

Biospecimen Retention: None Retained

Biospecimen Description:

Enrollment:	41
Study Start Date:	May 2006
Study Completion Date:	May 2007

Detailed 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.

Eligibility

Ages Eligible for Study:	18 Years and older
Genders Eligible for Study:	Both
Accepts Healthy Volunteers:	No
Sampling Method:	Non-Probability Sample

Study Population

41 consequtive patients with chronic musculosckeletal pain

Criteria

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

Contacts and Locations

Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00369902

Locations

Israel
Sheba Hospital,
Ramat Gan, Israel

Sponsors and Collaborators

Sheba Medical Center

Assaf-Harofeh Medical Center

Investigators

Principal Investigator:

Dorit Gamus, M.D., Ph.D.

Sheba Hospital, Tel Hashomer, ISRAEL

More Information

No publications provided

Study ID Numbers:	SHEBA-05-3817-OG-CTIL
Study First Received:	August 29, 2006
Last Updated:	July 19, 2009
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:	NCT00369902 History of Changes
Health Authority:	Israel: Israeli Health Ministry Pharmaceutical Administration

Keywords provided by Sheba Medical Center:

pain
acupuncture

Study placed in the following topic categories:

Pain

ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on August 12, 2009