Efficacy and Mechanisms of Energy Medicine to Decrease Chronic Knee Pain in Outpatient Settings
TerminatedNot applicableNCT03637595
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
This study will assess the efficacy and mechanisms behind Energy Medicine in reducing chronic knee pain within an outpatient setting. This study will investigate a form of Energy Medicine (EM) performed by a natural solo practitioner, using a standard number of three sessions, which will compare to both positive and negative control groups. The positive control group will receive acupuncture and the negative control group will receive a sham intervention.
Study details
- Official title
- Efficacy and Mechanisms of Energy Medicine to Decrease Chronic Knee Pain in Outpatient Settings
- Conditions
- Ostheoporosis of the Knee
- Interventions
- Procedure: Acupuncture
- Procedure: Enery Medicine Intervention
- Procedure: Sham Energy Medicine
- Sponsor
- NYU Langone Health
- Start date
- 2019-06-12
- Primary completion
- 2019-11-27
- Sex
- Female
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 70 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Presence of knee pain lasting for at least six months * No radiation of knee pain * No acupuncture treatments in the previous six months * Failure to respond completely to the medications given by their orthopedic or pain management specialist * Knee pain on most days (4 out of 7 days of the week) with average self-reported severity of 4 or more out of 10 on a numeric rating scale (NRS) * Complaints of morning stiffness lasting less than 30 minutes * Not be in active physical therapy (PT) for the duration of the trial. * Adult patients ≥18 years of age * English speaking Exclusion Criteria: * Any concurrent diagnosis of systemic disease * Other concurrent treatments such as massage, Acupcunture, PT or any kind of Energy Medicine * Bleeding disorder * Trypanophobia (fear of needles or injections). * Have medical condition that causes difficulty in saliva production/collection (i.e.: Sjogren's Syndrome)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03637595