What this means
This is a trial that is still signing up people, so no results exist yet. It cannot tell us yet whether ear acupressure helps people get ready for lung surgery.
Plain-English summary written by an AI model from the registry listing.
- Status
- Recruiting
- Who can join
- Ages 50 and over
- Where
- 1 site, including Illinois
The science
- Registered title
- Auricular Acupressure in Prehabilitation
- Trial ID
- NCT06516198 ↗
- Phase
- Not applicable
- Study type
- interventional
- Conditions
- Frailty, Thoracic, Prehabilitation, Lung Surgery, Wedge Resection, Segmentectomy, Lobectomy, Pneumonectomy; Status
- What is tested
- Auricular Acupressure
- Sponsor
- University of Chicago
- Ages
- 50 Years to no maximum
- Dates
- First posted Jul 23, 2024 · updated Dec 9, 2025
Registry 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.
Sites (1)
- University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States