A study of a means to relieve pain for short term periods

A Manual Stimulation for Short-term Relief of Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial in Patients with Pain seen in the Emergency Room, Renal, Dental and Oncology Clinics

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12606000439549

Enrollment

240

Registered

2006-10-12

Start date

2005-06-08

Completion date

Unknown

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

To determine whether the manipulation will or will not significantly relieve clinical pain, and the durability of that relief. The study hypothesis was that a brief manual stimulation correctly applied to specific areas of skin (based on Traditional Chinese Medicine) could relief pain.

Interventions

Patients were randomly assigned to an active stimulation group, or a placebo stimulation group. Mild, non-invasive, and not injurious manual stimulation was applied to an area of the limbs' surface (the skin), while patients lay on a clinic bed.Thereafter, the patients arose to rate pain level by means of a Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). To determine if the pain relief was durable, rating times varied from immediate to 60 minutes in various protocols. Patients in the Emergency Room test gave their evaluation, as soon as possible after the stimulation. The 10-min test protocol asked patients to determine pain relief at 0, 5 and 10 minutes, and the 60-min test protocol, at ten minutes intervals up to sixty minutes.

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Intervention model

Parallel

Primary purpose

Treatment

Masking

Blinded (masking used)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

15 Years to No maximum

Inclusion criteria

Pain from their respective pathologies when recruited for the tests.

Exclusion criteria

Emotional instability, questionable metal status, younger than 15 years old, and, receipt of another analgesic within 12 hours of the test.

Outcome results