Auricular Acupressure in Prehabilitation

Description

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

Frailty, Thoracic, Prehabilitation, Lung Surgery, Wedge Resection, Segmentectomy, Lobectomy, Pneumonectomy; Status

Study Overview

Study Details

Study overview

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.

A Pilot Study of the Utility of Auricular Acupressure in Enhancing Prehabilitation Benefits in Candidates for Thoracic Surgery.

Auricular Acupressure in Prehabilitation

Condition
Frailty
Intervention / Treatment

-

Contacts and Locations

Chicago

University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

  • * Allergy to Vaccaria seeds
  • * Medical condition affecting either ear preventing use of auricular acupressure such as eczema, frostbite, sunburn

Ages Eligible for Study

50 Years to

Sexes Eligible for Study

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Collaborators and Investigators

University of Chicago,

Maria Lucia Madariaga, MD, PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR, University of Chicago

Study Record Dates

2027-06-20