Mirthful Laughter and Muscle Soreness / Pain

Completed · Not applicable

Conditions studied: Pain

In brief

The purpose of this study is first to investigate the effect of a controlled intervention with a comedy video on pain tolerance in a social setting while quantitatively measuring laughter in a young healthy population experiencing delayed onset muscle soreness. The comedy intervention will be compared to a control of watching a documentary. The second aim is to examine to what extent various methods of eliciting pain would cause physiological responses that confound the interpretation of a pain stimulus.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT02896075

Run by

University of Texas at Austin

People needed

40

Starts

2016-08-01

Expected to finish

2017-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2021-04-08

Who can join

Age: 20 and older, up to 40. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Between the age of 20 and 40
• Considered healthy

You may not qualify if…

• Candidates that are on cardiovascular acting drugs.
• Candidates currently taking anticoagulants.
• Candidates that have chronic pain or other musculoskeletal injuries.
• Candidates with a body fat percentage less than 5%.
• Candidates with bleeding disorders or neurological disorders
• Raynaud's disease
• History of severe frost bite.

Where it is running

• Cardiovascular Aging Research Lab at UT Austin — Austin, Texas, United States

Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov

Trial information comes from ClinicalTrials.gov and is refreshed daily. TrialsForMe does not provide medical care and does not run the studies it lists.