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Acupuncture and rehabilitation in the painful shoulder: a blinded randomised multicentre study

Foundation Progress and Health (Council of Andalusian Health Services) (Spain)0 个研究点目标入组 465 人开始时间: 2005年4月4日最近更新:
适应症

试验速览

阶段
未知
状态
已完成
发起方
入组人数
465

研究概览

简要总结

研究设计

研究类型
Interventional

入排标准

性别
All

入选标准

  • Patients referred to the Rehabilitation Services of health centres participating in the study and belonging to the Public Health System (Andalusian Public Health System and Murcia Public Health System). Patients presenting chronic symptoms of painful shoulder with a diagnosis of supraspinal tendinitis or subacromial bursitis. The treatment proposed is physiotherapy combined with acupuncture or with transcutaneous stimulation (TENS) - placebo. Patients will be informed of the study design and of the techniques to be employed, as well as of the possible risks (infection, lipothymia, hematomas). They will be informed that they are free to conclude their participation in the study at any time, and will suffer no kind of penalty for doing so, nor will they lose any of the benefits to which they are entitled.
  • Selection criteria:
  • Approval by the Ethics Committee of the reference hospital.
  • Criteria for inclusion:
  • 1. Patients with a clinical diagnosis of subacromial syndromes (supraspinal tendinitis or subacromial bursitis) with an evolution period greater than 3 months
  • 2. Prior radiograph (normal)
  • 3. Informed consent
  • 4. Unilateral complaint
  • The sample size was determined for a significance level of 0.05 and a power of 0.80, with a final average score of 70 on Constant?s Functional Evaluation Scale for the Shoulder for the experimental group (standard deviation = 17) and of 65 for the control group (standard deviation = 18), using a two-tailed test. According to data obtained from earlier studies, 188 patients are required for the experimental group and 199 for the control group. Assuming a drop-out rate of 20%, the final sample size was set at 226 patients for the experimental group and 239 for the control group.

排除标准

  • 1. Surgery
  • 2. Luxations or fractures in the proximity of the shoulder
  • 3. Other significant traumas
  • 4. Direct or indirect (in traction) observed during anamnesis and clearly related to the onset of the episode
  • 5. Hypocoagulates
  • 6. Generalised disorders of the muscular-skeletal system
  • 7. Neurological disorders
  • 8. Vscular trophic disorders in the lower limbs
  • 9. Lymphoedema

研究者

发起方
Foundation Progress and Health (Council of Andalusian Health Services) (Spain)

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