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Auricular Acupressure in Prehabilitation

United States40 participantsStarted 2025-07-21

Plain-language summary

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.

Who can participate

Age range50 Years

SexALL

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Inclusion Criteria * Being considered for major lung surgery * Surgery is not scheduled for at least 2 weeks * Age ≥ 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 Exclusion Criteria: * Allergy to Vaccaria seeds * Medical condition affecting either ear preventing use of auricular acupressure such as eczema, frostbite, sunburn

What they're measuring

Number of patients enrolled

Timeframe: 2 weeks

Trial details

NCT IDNCT06516198

SponsorUniversity of Chicago

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeINTERVENTIONAL

Primary completion2027-06-20

Contact for this trial

Maria Lucia Madariaga, MD

7737022500 mlmadariaga@bsd.uchicago.edu

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