Therapeutic Touch for Wrist Fractures in Postmenopausal W... | NCT00079521

Studies
Therapeutic Touch for Wrist Fractures in Postmenopausal Women

NCT00079521

Sponsor

National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)

Status

Completed

Last Update Posted

Aug 17, 2006Estimated

Enrollment

125

Phase

Phase 2

Conditions

Osteoporosis
Fractures

Interventions

Therapeutic Touch

Countries

United States

Protocol Section

Identification Module Status Module Sponsor/Collaborators Module Oversight Module Description Module Conditions Module Design Module Arms/Interventions Module Outcomes Module Eligibility Module Contacts/Locations Module References Module IPD Sharing Statement Module

Results Section

Participant Flow Module Baseline Characteristics Module Outcome Measures Module Adverse Events Module More Info Module

Annotation Section

Annotation Module

Document Section

Large Document Module

Derived Section

Miscellaneous Info Module Condition Browse Module Intervention Browse Module

Protocol Section

Identification Module

NCT ID

Results Section

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Annotation Section

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Document Section

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Derived Section

Miscellaneous Info Module

Version Holder

Status Module

Record Verification Date

Aug 2006

Overall Recruitment Status or Expanded Access Status

Completed

Last Known Status

Not provided

Delayed Posting

Not provided

Why Stopped

Not provided

Expanded Access Info

Start Date

Mar 2003

Primary Completion Date

Not provided

Completion Date

Apr 2006

First Submitted Date

Mar 9, 2004

First Submission Date that Met QC Criteria

Mar 9, 2004

First Posted Date

Mar 10, 2004Estimated

Results Waived

Not provided

Results First Submitted Date

Not provided

Results First Submitted that Met QC Criteria

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Results First Posted Date

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Certification/Extension (aka Delayed Results) First Submitted Date

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Certification/Extension First Submitted that Passed QC Review

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Certification/Extension First Posted Date

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Last Update Submitted Date

Aug 16, 2006

Last Update Posted Date

Aug 17, 2006Estimated

Description Module

Brief Summary

This study will evaluate the effectiveness of therapeutic touch in treating wrist fractures in women past menopause.

Detailed Description

In the United States, the use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) increased by approximately 25% between 1990 and 1997. The number of visits to CAM practitioners exceeded visits to primary care physicians by about 250 million in 1997. Energy medicine modalities, including therapeutic touch, healing touch, and reiki, are commonly utilized for conditions ranging from headache to cancer, yet understanding of the human energy field and how it may be used in healing is limited. This study will examine the effect of therapeutic touch on fracture healing in postmenopausal women.

Women will be enrolled in the study within one week of a wrist fracture and will receive either therapeutic touch or a sham (placebo) treatment daily for 3 weeks. Assessments will include blood and urine analysis and measures of pain and function in the affected wrist.

Design Module

Study Type

Interventional

Number of References to an Expanded Access Study

Not provided

Expanded Access Types

Not provided

Patient Registry

Not provided

Target Follow-Up Duration

Not provided

Phases

Phase 2

Interventional Study Design

Allocation

Biospecimen

No data available

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Enrollment

125

Name	Type	Description	Arm Group Labels	Other Names
Therapeutic Touch	Procedure

Eligibility Module

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criertia:

Postmenopausal
Wrist fracture within 1 week of study entry
Able to travel to research center for daily treatment

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sex

Female

Sex/Gender Based

Not provided

Sex/Gender Description

Not provided

Minimum Age

40 Years

Maximum Age

85 Years

Standard Ages

AdultOlder Adult

Study Population

Not provided

Sampling Method

Not provided

Contacts/Locations Module

Central Contacts

Not provided

Overall Officials

Name	Affiliation	Role
Karen M. Prestwood, MD	University of Connecticut	Principal Investigator

Locations

Facility	Status	City	State	ZIP	Country	Contacts
University of Connecticut Health Center		Farmington	Connecticut	06030-5215	United States

Condition Browse Module

MeSH Terms

ID	Term
D010024	Osteoporosis
D050723	Fractures, Bone

Ancestor Terms

ID	Term
D001851	Bone Diseases, Metabolic
D001847	Bone Diseases
D009140	Musculoskeletal Diseases
D008659	Metabolic Diseases

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Intervention Browse Module

MeSH Terms

ID	Term
D019124	Therapeutic Touch

Ancestor Terms

ID	Term
D026441	Mind-Body Therapies
D000529	Complementary Therapies
D013812	Therapeutics
D026443	Spiritual Therapies

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