Immediate Analgesic Effects of Cheek Acupuncture for Acute Gouty Arthritis

Not Applicable

Completed

Brief Summary: The goal of this clinical trial is to evaluate the immediate analgesic effect and patients' evaluation of the treatment of cheek acupuncture in patients with acute gouty arthritis. The main question it aims to answer are: Does cheek acupuncture has immediate pain relief effects on patients with acute gouty arthritis. Participants will received cheek acupuncture for 30 mins.

If there is a comparison group: Researchers will compare etoricoxib group to see if cheek acupuncture is superior to etoricoxib for improvement of acute pain in subjects with acute gouty arthritis.

Detailed Description: The symptoms of acute gouty arthritis (AGA) are extremely painful, but most patients do not begin to experience pain relief until after they have been seen by a doctor and have taken their medication, leaving a time lag between the time they are seen and the time the treatment is effective. In clinical practice, researchers have found that the use of cheek acupuncture at the first visit to the patient often provides some immediate pain relief, but there is no evidence-based evidence for this.

This project was designed as a prospective, randomized, controlled clinical trial, in which patients with AGA who were seen for the first time were studied, and the treatment group was given cheek acupuncture and the control group was given oral etoricoxib tablets. VAS will be recorded before treatment, 0 min, 30 min, 1 h and 2 h after the start of treatment to depict the immediate analgesic efficacy curve and compare the immediate analgesic effect of the two groups at different time points. If the project is successfully completed, it will explore a treatment method for acute gouty arthritis that is fast-acting, painless and effective, eliminating the time lag between consultation and efficacy for the benefit of gout patients.

Recruitment & Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria

Meet the diagnostic criteria for acute gouty arthritis and with attacks in the unilateral ankle or first metatarsophalangeal joint;
- Age ≥18 years old and ≤75 years old, regardless of gender; ③ The gouty arthritis attack is within 48h; ④ Without therapy with targeted topical treatment or self-administered medications including colchicine, anti-inflammatory pain medications, hormones, herbs, etc.

Agreement to comply with the clinician's treatment plan.

Exclusion Criteria

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
acupuncture group	cheek acupuncture	subjects will received cheek acupuncture for one time
etoricoxib	Etoricoxib	subjects will received etoricoxib 120mg for one time

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Visual Analogue Scoring (VAS)	baseline, 0 minute, 30 minutes, 1 hour and 2 hours after the start of treatment	a 10 cm long horizontal or vertical line that divides the pain level into 10 levels (i.e., 1 level for every 1 cm), with the leftmost (or upper) end representing "no pain" and the rightmost (or lower) end representing "severe pain The leftmost (or upper) end represents "no pain" and the rightmost (or lower) end represents "severe pain", and the patient is asked to mark the pain level he/she feels with an "I" on this line.

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Patient feedback score	2 hours after the start of treatment	an 8-point patient global assessent of treatment response score was used
Immediate pain relief	2 hours after the start of treatment	After the efficacy evaluation of the pain index by retesting 2 hours after the first treatment, the degree of pain relief was divided into: immediate efficacy, which means that all the pain was relieved; apparent efficacy, which means that the pain symptoms were significantly relieved; improvement, which means that the pain situation was relieved; and ineffectiveness, which means that the pain was not resolved at all. Immediate apparent efficiency = immediate efficiency + apparent efficiency.