Actively Recruiting
Auricular Acupressure in Prehabilitation
Led by University of Chicago · Updated on 2025-12-09
40
Participants Needed
1
Research Sites
99 weeks
Total Duration
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AI-Summary
What this Trial Is About
Complementary medicine is recognized for its ability to enhance appetite, increase energy, reduce anxiety, decrease pain, and improve sleep, among many other benefits. Acupuncture is among the most frequent types of complementary medicine practiced in the US, and Medicare currently includes back pain as a reimbursable indication for this therapy. Acupuncture-related therapies may enhance efforts at prehabilitation in candidates for major lung resection.
CONDITIONS
Official Title
Auricular Acupressure in Prehabilitation
Who Can Participate
Eligibility Criteria
You may qualify if you...
- Being considered for major lung surgery
- Surgery is not scheduled for at least 2 weeks
- Age 65 50 years
- Able to understand English at a 4th grade level
- No known contraindications to prehabilitation (strength, endurance, balance exercises)
- Able to provide informed consent for participation
- Has an adult care partner who will be available and capable of placing seeds
- Has access to smart phone for communication and image sharing
- Underwent frailty screening (given any score)
- Able to perform spirometry testing in clinic
You will not qualify if you...
- Allergy to Vaccaria seeds
- Medical condition affecting either ear preventing use of auricular acupressure such as eczema, frostbite, sunburn
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Trial Site Locations
Total: 1 location
1
University of Chicago
Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637
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Research Team
M
Maria Lucia Madariaga, MD
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How is the study designed?
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Masking
SINGLE
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Model
PARALLEL
Primary Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Number of Arms
2
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