A single-blind randomised controlled trial assessing pain relief following real or sham acupuncture in adults with symptomatic thumb carpometacarpal joint arthritis.

Derby Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust0 个研究点目标入组 70 人开始时间: 2018年6月14日最近更新: 2021年8月2日

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2020 Results article in https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32212888/ (added 06/05/2021)

•1. Acupuncture-naïve
•2. Newly referred to either surgical or therapist clinics at the Pulvertaft Hand Centre (PHC) with osteoarthritis of the basal thumb joint
•3. Where both hands were affected, the worst affected hand according to the Nelson Hospital Questionnaire (NHQ) score was treated

•1. Prior experience of acupuncture
•2. Previous surgery to the affected thumb
•3. Steroid injection to the affected joint within 12 months
•4. Change in treatment to the affected thumb within 6 weeks e.g. splint/exercise regime, or ongoing changes in symptoms following such a change
•5. Contraindication to acupuncture: warfarin with unstable INR, epilepsy, pregnancy, needle phobia, unstable cardiac condition or hypertension, prosthetic heart valve, vascular or neuropathic problem at the proposed site of needling
•6. Inability to understand written and spoken English, or to give informed consent

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