The Effect of East-West Collaborative Medicine on Chronic Cervical Pain

Not Applicable

• Conditions: Chronic Neck Pain
• Interventions: Procedure: acupuncture

• Registration Number: NCT01205958
• Lead Sponsor: Kyunghee University Medical Center

Brief Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of East-West collaborative medicine on chronic cervical pain.

Detailed Description

Design: This is a randomized, controlled study.

Participants: 45 participants with chronic cervical pain are recruited and randomly assigned to three groups.

Intervention: Over an three-week period, one group(n=15) gets western medicine treatment(drug medication); another group(n=15) gets oriental medicine treatment(individualized needling 2-3 times a week); the other group(n=15) gets western medicine plus oriental medicine treatment for 3 weeks

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2009-12
• Status Verified: 2010-09
• Study First Submitted: 2010-09-14
• Study First Submitted QC: 2010-09-20
• Last Update Submitted: 2010-09-20
• Study First Posted: 2010-09-21
• Last Update Posted: 2010-09-21
• Primary Completion: 2011-01
• Study Completion: 2011-02

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: UNKNOWN
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 45

Inclusion Criteria

• presence of Chronic neck pain

Exclusion Criteria

• Cancer
• Spinal infection
• ankylosing spondylosis
• myelopathy
• moderate hypertension or more
• serious mental disease
• other skeletomuscular disease
• history of operation or acupuncture treatment about spinal disease

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Acupuncture	acupuncture	-
Zalprofen plus Acupuncture	acupuncture	-
medication(Zaltoprofen)	acupuncture	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Pain Scores on the Visual Analogue Scale(VAS)	7 week

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
EQ-5D(EuroQol-5 dimension)	7 week	questionnaire for measuring health-related quality of life
Neck disability index	7 week	Neck disability index : questionnaire for measuring how much neck pain affects ability of daily activities
Beck depression inventory	7 week	Beck depression inventory : for assessing depression
SF-36	7 week	questionnaire for measuring health-related quality of life

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Kyunghee University East West Neo Medical Center; 🇰🇷 Seoul, Korea, Republic of