Recruiting

Battlefield Acupuncture

Sponsor:

Tripler Army Medical Center

Code:

NCT07528300

Conditions

Rhabdomyolysis

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Interventions

Battlefield Acupuncture

Study Details

Brief summary:

Patients admitted with exertional rhabdomyolysis will be offered treatment with battlefield acupuncture for pain management and compared with patient's pain levels and pain medication requirements with those patients who declined battlefield acupuncture.

Conditions

Rhabdomyolysis

Study ID

NCT07528300

Start date

Apr 24, 2023

Status verified date

Apr, 2026

Completion date

Apr 24, 2028

Anticipated

Primary completion date

Apr 24, 2028

Anticipated

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Rhabdomyolysis
  • chooses battlefield acupuncture

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Greater than 72 hours from onset of symptoms
  • younger than 18 years of age
  • declines battlefield acupuncture
  • no pain

Study Design

Enrollment

36 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Non randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Arms

active comparator: Battlefield Acupuncture

Patients admitted with rhabdomyolysis who choose to get battlefield acupuncture for pain control.

no intervention: Patients admitted with rhabdomyolysis who did not receive battlefield acupuncture

This arm is the retrospective group that did not receive the BFA as an intervention.

Interventions

Battlefield Acupuncture

Treatment of pain from rhabdomyolysis with battlefield acupuncture

Primary outcome measure

  • Pain Level on a pain scale of 0-10 [ Time Frame: Pain level will be measured through study completion (up to 12 months). ]
  • Pain Medication [ Time Frame: From enrollment to the end of treatment at 12 months ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Chelsea W Tagawa, MD

808-433-2202chelsea.w.tagawa.civ@health.mil

Susan A Scrivner, MS

808-433-5486susan.a.scrivner.ctr@health.mil

Locations

Tripler Army Medical Center

Recruiting

TAMC, Hawaii, United States, 96859

Contacts

Susan A Scrivner, BS

808-433-5486susan.a.scrivner.ctr@health.mil

More Information

Sponsor

Tripler Army Medical Center

Last update posted

Apr 14, 2026

Last verified

Apr, 2026

Keywords

  • battlefield acupuncture
  • rhabdomyolysis
  • pain management

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Tripler Army Medical Center on 2026-04-14.