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The effect of intervention time of wrist and ankle acupuncture treatment on the effect of post-operative thyroid pain relief

Not Applicable
Recruiting
Conditions
Thyroid tumour
Registration Number
ITMCTR2100004626
Lead Sponsor
School of Nursing, Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine
Brief Summary

Not available

Detailed Description

Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status
Recruiting
Sex
All
Target Recruitment
Not specified
Inclusion Criteria

(1) Age: 18 to 65 years.
(2) Patients medically diagnosed as requiring thyroid surgery.
(3) Postoperative pain score > 3.
(4) No impairment in verbal communication and clear consciousness.
(5) No contraindications to wrist and ankle acupuncture and intact skin around the acupuncture point, no redness, no scarring, no breakage.
(6) Informed consent obtained and voluntarily subjected to the trial.

Exclusion Criteria

(1) With serious illnesses such as severe cardiac insufficiency.
(2) With mental illness, poor cognitive understanding or communication difficulties.
(3) With skin damage or allergy.
(4) Those with a history of needle sickness.
(5) Long-term use of sedative and analgesic drugs.
(6) Those who have participated in other clinical trials within the last 4 weeks.

Study & Design

Study Type
Interventional study
Study Design
Not specified
Primary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Pain evaluation;
Secondary Outcome Measures
NameTimeMethod
Grading of nausea and vomiting reactions;40-item Quality of Recovery Score;
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