Electronic Approach to the Human Massage Therapist

NANot yet recruitingINTERVENTIONAL
Enrollment

40

Participants

Timeline

Start Date

October 15, 2025

Primary Completion Date

October 1, 2026

Study Completion Date

October 1, 2026

Conditions
Lower Back Pain
Interventions
DEVICE

EMMA massage therapy

Expert Manipulative Massage Automation (EMMA) is equipped with sensors to measure muscle stiffness and uses 3D vision technology to measure muscle stiffness and identify pressure points while delivering a massage to patients. Following that, the electronic massager will determine the best course of action for our patients based on the information stored by our Artificial Intelligence and EMMA's robotic arm will perform the massage. EMMA executes massages through soft treatment modules that are warmed to a temperature of between 38℃ and 40℃ to mimic human touch.

OTHER

Clinical massage treatment

The direct person clinical massage treatment will be delivered by a clinical licensed massage therapist. The type of massage will follow the EMMA massage in that it will be a deep tissue massage (to mimic the Tuina massage) and generally will be for about 30 minutes to once again mimic the duration of massage therapy of the EMMA.

Trial Locations (1)

55905

Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Rochester

Sponsors

Lead Sponsor

All Listed Sponsors
lead

Mayo Clinic

OTHER