Study on the effect of acupuncture on improving chronic neck pain with mild to moderate anxiety by regulating cortical excitability
- Conditions
- Chronic neck pain with mild to moderate anxiety disorders
- Registration Number
- ITMCTR2024000174
- Lead Sponsor
- The Second Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
1) Aged 18-60 years old;
2) Healthy volunteers: no physical discomfort or underlying diseases in the past 1 month; Hamilton anxiety scale score HAMA-14=7 points;
3) Patients with chronic neck pain and anxiety: need to meet the diagnostic criteria for chronic neck pain and anxiety; VAS score > 3 and 8< HAMA-14 score =20;
4) no history of needle faintness;
5) No peripheral stimulation intervention (such as acupuncture, peripheral electrical stimulation, etc.) and central stimulation (such as rTMS, tDCS, etc.) in the past three months;
6) Volunteer to participate in the study and sign the informed consent.
1) Patients with cervical spondylosis without cervical pain, or patients without cervical pain as the main complaint; Other types of cervical spondylosis were excluded through clinical manifestations and X-ray examinations.
2) Have violent behavior, psychotic symptoms, or have been diagnosed with schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, or other mental disorders;
3) History of personality disorder;
4) History of alcohol or substance abuse;
5) History of brain trauma and epilepsy;
6) Patients with severe heart, liver, kidney and cerebrovascular diseases;
7) Chronic weakness, severe neurosis, dementia, severe osteoporosis, pregnancy;
8) Leukemia, thrombocytopenia and other bleeding tendency.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method HAMA scale;NPQ scale;Motor evoked potentials;
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method SAS scale;VAS scale;