CT-guided selective dorsal root ganglion electroacupuncture in the treatment of postherpetic neuralgia: a randomized controlled trial
- Conditions
- Postherpetic neuralgia
- Registration Number
- ITMCTR2000003776
- Lead Sponsor
- Shanghai Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
(1) The participant participates signed informed consent is required;
(2) Pain that lasts >= 1 month after the shingles rash has healed;
(3) Herpes affects the intercostal nerve;
(4) The participant 's onset time <= 3 months;
(5) The participant is a male or female outpatient aged 50–80 years;
(6) The participant has a VAS score >= 4.
(1) Occult herpes and visceral nerve herpetic pain;
(2) Leukemia, aplastic anemia, systemic lupus erythematosus, kidney transplantation, liver transplantation, malignant tumor, AIDS;
(3) Abnormal laboratory indicators: Those with ALT, AST, BUN exceeding 20% of the upper limit of normal; those with other clinically significant laboratory indicators abnormal;
(4) Women who are pregnant or breastfeeding, or have pregnancy plans in the past three months;
(5) Allergies;
(6) According to the judgment of the investigator, those who have other diseases that reduce the possibility of enrollment or complicate enrollment, such as frequent changes in the working environment, which may easily cause loss to follow-up, and those who cannot give full informed consent due to mental and behavioral disorders;
(7) Patients who participated in other clinical trials within the past month.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method ID pain;VAS Score;Substance P;Serum ß-endorphin;
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method PSQI;SF-36;