Effects of a Far-Infrared Ray Patch on Neck Pain Relief

Status

Completed

Phases

Unknown

Study type

Interventional

Source

ANZCTR

Registry ID

ACTRN12613000964718

Enrollment

Registered

2013-08-29

Start date

2011-12-01

Completion date

2011-12-09

Last updated

2020-01-13

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Conditions

None listed

Brief summary

This study verified the FIR non-thermal neck pain relief effect. Compared to the control group without FIR, the FIR patch demonstrated brilliant improvements in skin warming capability, blood flow, and heart rate variability. This investigation revealed that the FIR patch has the capacity to reduce neck pain. This innovative FIR patch can provide complementary therapy to help solve neck pain disorders. This work was just a short-term experiment to show the advantages of FIR. A long term study to evaluate the non-thermal effect on neck disorder relief should be carried out.

Interventions

The far-infrared ray carbon fiber patch obtained from Linkwin Technology Co., LTD. The patch has a size of 16.5cm x 8.5cm. We put the patch on the participants' neck area for 30 minutes once for the experiment.

Study design

Allocation

Randomised controlled trial

Primary purpose

Treatment

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

All

Age

18 Years to 40 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Neck pain for at least one month.

Exclusion criteria

Pregnant women and the neck wound such as surgical trauma.

Outcome results