Acupuncture for Post Operative Pain Following Total Knee or Hip Arthroplasty

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Arthroplasty Complications
• Interventions: Other: acupuncture

• Registration Number: NCT03415204
• Lead Sponsor: Ziv Hospital

Brief Summary

Post operative pain (POP) is a major obstacle on the road to healing, despite the increasing interest in postoperative pain management and development of pain control modalities (1). Postoperative pain is still insufficiently treated with more than 50% of patients suffering from moderate to severe pain early after surgery .Pain after orthopedic surgery is considered especially difficult to manage. Approximately half of total knee or hip arthroplasty patients present with extreme pain immediately after surgery. Total knee and hip arthroplasty often results not only in severe perioperative pain and debilitation, but chronic pain, joint stiffness, and functional disability many months or even years following the procedure. Various modalities of treating orthopedic POP exist, but the optimal management of postoperative pain remains controversial with no clear consensus of the best method.We suggest that acupuncture can be an effective treatment for post operative pain after total knee or hip arthroplasty.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2017-12-20
• Status Verified: 2018-01
• Study First Submitted: 2018-01-10
• Study First Submitted QC: 2018-01-29
• Study First Posted: 2018-01-30
• Primary Completion: 2018-12-20
• Study Completion: 2018-12-20
• Last Update Submitted: 2021-02-03
• Last Update Posted: 2021-02-04

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 100

Inclusion Criteria

• signed informed consent, above 18 years of age, about to undergo total knee or hip arthroplasty

Exclusion Criteria

• Known mental disease, active cancer disease, coagulopathy, Hepatitis B,C.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
acupuncture	acupuncture	-

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
average post operative pain during time of hospitalization	average pain score during 5 days following operation	post operative pain will measured twice daily - morning and afternoon during hospitalization time. patients will be asked to rate thier pain on a visual analog scale ranging from 0- no pain to 10 - severe pain

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Ziv Medical Center; 🇮🇱 Safed, Israel