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Role of Tai Chi in Fibromyalgia for Musculoskeletal Disease

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Waitlist Available
Led By Jian Kong, MD, MPH
Research Sponsored by Massachusetts General Hospital
Eligibility Criteria Checklist
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Must have
Be between 18 and 65 years old
Timeline
Screening 3 weeks
Treatment Varies
Follow Up 12 weeks
Awards & highlights
No Placebo-Only Group

Summary

To accomplish our Specific Aims, we propose to conduct a two-session fMRI experiment in up to 30 patients with fibromyalgia (FM) and up to 30 healthy controls. All subjects will be invited to complete the second, identical fMRI session about 3 months following completion of the first session. Fibromyalgia subjects will complete their scans before and after a 12-week Tai Chi intervention in collaboration with Tufts Medical Center.

Eligible Conditions
  • Musculoskeletal Disease
  • Fibromyalgia

Timeline

Screening ~ 3 weeks
Treatment ~ Varies
Follow Up ~12 weeks
This trial's timeline: 3 weeks for screening, Varies for treatment, and 12 weeks for reporting.

Treatment Details

Study Objectives

Study objectives can provide a clearer picture of what you can expect from a treatment.
Primary study objectives
Arterial spin labeling (ASL) before and after Tai Chi intervention.
Secondary study objectives
Resting-state BOLD fMRI before and after Tai Chi intervention.

Awards & Highlights

No Placebo-Only Group
All patients enrolled in this study will receive some form of active treatment.

Trial Design

1Treatment groups
Experimental Treatment
Group I: Role of Tai Chi in FibromyalgiaExperimental Treatment1 Intervention
Each Tai Chi session will last 60 minutes and will continue twice a week for 12 weeks. Our instructors, who have extensive experience conducting Tai Chi training programs, will follow the standardized Tai Chi protocol. We will also provide the participants with printed materials on FM and the Tai Chi Mind-Body program, including Tai Chi principles, practicing techniques, and safety precautions for participants with FM. In the first session, the Tai Chi instructors will explain exercise theory and procedures of Tai Chi. For the remaining sessions, the subjects will practice Tai Chi under the instruction of one of the Tai Chi instructors. Every session will include the following components: (1) warm-up and self-massage and a review of Tai Chi principles; (2) Tai Chi movement; (3) breathing techniques; (4) relaxation. Each component of the program derives from classical Yang style Tai Chi 108 posture.30
Treatment
First Studied
Drug Approval Stage
How many patients have taken this drug
Tai chi
2013
Completed Phase 2
~330

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Who is running the clinical trial?

Massachusetts General HospitalLead Sponsor
3,006 Previous Clinical Trials
13,307,222 Total Patients Enrolled
Jian Kong, MD, MPHPrincipal InvestigatorMassachusetts General Hospital
~5 spots leftby Nov 2025
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