Pragmatic randomized controlled trial of pharmacopuncture therapy for cervical disc herniation: A pilot study

Jaseng Hospital of Korean Medicine0 个研究点目标入组 84 人开始时间: 待定最近更新: 2024年7月23日

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•1.Symptoms of cervical disc herniation for less than 12 months
•2.Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) of neck pain is more than 5
•3.Symptoms of neuromuscular disease in one or both upper limbs (pain, pull, numbness, sensory abnormalities, motor abnormalities)
•4.Discrimination findings above protusion, which can explain clinical symptoms on Cervical spine MRI or CT
•5.19-69 years old
•6.participants who agreed and wrote informed consents

•1.Case of being diagnosed with a specific serious disease that may cause neck pain(Migration of cancer reaching to spine, acute fracture of spine, spine dislocation)
•2.Progressive neurologic deficits or severe neurologic deficits
•3.Cause of pain due to soft tissue disease, not the spine(Cancer, fibromyalgia, RA, goat, or etc.)
•4.Other chronic diseases(stroke, MI, kidney disease, diabetic neuropathy, dimentia, epilepsy, or etc.) that may interfere with the interpretation of therapeutic effects or outcomes
•5.Participants taking steroid, immunosuppressant, psychotropic medication, or taking other drugs that may affect outcomes
•6.Inappropriate or unsafe pharmacopuncture therapy; hemorrhagic disease, taking anticoagulant drug, or severe diabetes patients who are likely to be infected
•7.Participants who took NSAIDs or pharmacopuncture, acupuncture, physical therapy within 1 week
•8.Pregnant, planning to get pregnant or lactating women
•9.Participants who had undergone cervical surgery within 3 months
•10.Participants who had participated in other clinical trial within 1 month, had participated in other study within 6 months from the date of selection, or have plan for participation in other trial during follow up period of this trial
•11.Participants who can not write informed consent
•12.Participants who is difficult to participate in the trial according to investigator's decision

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Jaseng Hospital of Korean Medicine