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Thumb-tack Needle for Subcutaneous Embedding in Patients with Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

Not Applicable
Conditions
Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
Registration Number
ITMCTR2024000078
Lead Sponsor
anjing Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Hospital Affiliated with Nanjing University of Chinese Medicine, Nanjing 210014, China.
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Pending
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
Not specified
Inclusion Criteria

Patients with type 2 diabetes diagnosed with DPN; No adjustment of DPN-related drugs within 3 months; SNAP < 6µV or nerve conduction velocity < 42 m/s); Fibula SNAP < 10µV, fibula NLG < 42 m/s, tibia MNAP < 8 mV, tibia MNLG < 40 m/s; No history of acupuncture treatment for peripheral neuropathy.

Exclusion Criteria

BMI > 35 kg/m2; PN not caused by diabetes (such as alcoholism, chemotherapy, genetic causes, chronic inflammation or idiopathic PN, etc.); History of epilepsy; Coagulation dysfunction or use of anticoagulants with bleeding; Having bacterial infection or other skin diseases in the lower extremities, hindering acupuncture treatment; Lower extremity fracture within the last 3 months; Have received acupuncture treatment within the last 3 months; He is currently participating in other clinical studies.

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional study
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
erve conduction velocity;VAS overall complaints, VAS pain, NPSI Total intensity score ,SES global affective pain experience,SES global sensory pain experience, DPNPI total score, SF-12 physical component scale, SF-12 mental component scale;
Secondary Outcome Measures
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