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Verum VGAIT Group for Chronic Pain

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Research Sponsored by Massachusetts General Hospital

Eligibility Criteria Checklist

Specific guidelines that determine who can or cannot participate in a clinical trial

Must have

Be between 18 and 65 years old

Timeline

Screening 3 weeks

Treatment Varies

Follow Up 6 weeks

Awards & highlights

Study Summary

This trialwill study the effects of "video-guided acupuncture imagery treatment" on chronic low back pain. 8 sessions over 6 wks, with primary outcome being change in pain severity.

Eligible Conditions

Chronic Pain

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks3 visits

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~ 6 weeks

Screening ~ 3 weeks

Treatment ~ Varies

Follow Up ~6 weeks

This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and 6 weeks for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Outcome measures can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.

Primary outcome measures

Changes in low back pain (LBP) severity score

Secondary outcome measures

Changes in back-pain specific disability score

Changes in dysfunction, as measured by Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement System (PROMIS) Global Health score

Changes in dysfunction, as measured by Patient Reported Outcomes Measurement System-29 (PROMIS-29) score

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Trial Design

2Treatment groups

Experimental Treatment

Placebo Group

Group I: Verum VGAIT GroupExperimental Treatment1 Intervention

Participants in this group will receive verum (real) acupuncture and verum video-guided acupuncture imagery treatment (VGAIT).

Group II: Sham VGAIT GroupPlacebo Group1 Intervention

Participants in this group will receive sham acupuncture and sham VGAIT.

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Who is running the clinical trial?

Massachusetts General HospitalLead Sponsor

2,928 Previous Clinical Trials

13,198,275 Total Patients Enrolled

30 Trials studying Chronic Pain

4,933 Patients Enrolled for Chronic Pain

Frequently Asked Questions

These questions and answers are submitted by anonymous patients, and have not been verified by our internal team.

To what demographic does this experiment extend?

"This trial seeks to accept 80 patients with chronic pain and aged between 18-60 years old."

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Does this research protocol include those aged 35 and above?

"This clinical trial only allows individuals aged between 18 to 60 years old. For those under the age of 18, there are 42 alternatives and for those over 65, 573 options."

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Are there still spaces available for participants in this research project?

"The details available on clinicaltrials.gov signify that this medical study is no longer seeking participants. Initially posted February 14th 2019 and most recently updated January 13th 2020, the trial has now concluded its recruitment phase; however, there are still 674 other trials actively recruiting patients as we speak."

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Recent research and studies

clinicaltrials.govStudy

Brain Mechanisms of Video-Guided Acupuncture Imagery Treatment on Chronic Low Back Pain

Jian Kong 2019. "Brain Mechanisms of Video-Guided Acupuncture Imagery Treatment on Chronic Low Back Pain". ClinicalTrials.gov. https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT03765879.

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