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The Effect of Therapeutic Touch on Bone Formation in Postmenopausal Women After Wrist Fracture

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What is being tested

Data Collection

Who is being recruted

Wrist Fractures+7

+ Arm Injuries

+ Bone Diseases

From 40 to 85 Years
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How is the trial designed

Treatment Study

Phase 2
Interventional
Study Start: March 2003
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Summary

Principal SponsorNational Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
Last updated: January 13, 2026
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Study start date: March 1, 2003

Actual date on which the first participant was enrolled.

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.

Official TitleThe Effect of Therapeutic Touch on Bone Formation in Postmenopausal Women After Wrist Fracture 
NCT00079521P20AT000756-01P1
Principal SponsorNational Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
Last updated: January 13, 2026
Sourced from a government-validated database.Claim as a partner

Protocol

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Design Details

125 patients to be enrolled

Total number of participants that the clinical trial aims to recruit.

Treatment Study

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Eligibility

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Conditions
Criteria

Female

Biological sex of participants that are eligible to enroll.

From 40 to 85 Years

Range of ages for which participants are eligible to join.

Healthy volunteers allowed

If individuals who are healthy and do not have the condition being studied can participate.

Conditions

Pathology

Wrist FracturesArm InjuriesBone DiseasesBone Diseases, MetabolicMetabolic DiseasesMusculoskeletal DiseasesOsteoporosisWounds and InjuriesWrist InjuriesFractures, Bone

Criteria

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

Study Centers

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This study has 1 location

Suspended

University of Connecticut Health Center

Farmington, United StatesSee the location
CompletedOne Study Center