NCT01205958UnknownNot Applicable
Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Effect of East-West Collaborative Medicine on Chronic Cervical Pain: a Pilot Study
Kyunghee University Medical Center2 sites in 1 country45 target enrollmentStarted: December 2009Last updated:
Conditions
Trial Snapshot
- Phase
- Not Applicable
- Enrollment
- 45
- Locations
- 2
- Primary Endpoint
- Pain Scores on the Visual Analogue Scale(VAS)
Study Overview
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 Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Allocation
- Randomized
- Intervention Model
- Parallel
- Primary Purpose
- Prevention
- Masking
- Single (Investigator)
Eligibility Criteria
- Ages
- 25 Years to 55 Years (Adult)
- Sex
- All
- Accepts Healthy Volunteers
- No
Inclusion Criteria
- •presence of Chronic neck pain
Exclusion Criteria
- •Spinal infection
- •ankylosing spondylosis
- •myelopathy
- •moderate hypertension or more
- •serious mental disease
- •other skeletomuscular disease
- •history of operation or acupuncture treatment about spinal disease
Outcomes
Primary Outcomes
Pain Scores on the Visual Analogue Scale(VAS)
Time Frame: 7 week
Secondary Outcomes
- Neck disability index(7 week)
- Beck depression inventory(7 week)
- SF-36(7 week)
- EQ-5D(EuroQol-5 dimension)(7 week)
Investigators
Study Sites (2)
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