Acupuncture for low anterior resection syndrome: a multicenter randomized controlled clinical trial
- Conditions
- ow anterior resection syndrome
- Registration Number
- ITMCTR2024000195
- Lead Sponsor
- School of Acupuncture-Moxibustion and Tuina, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Pending
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
1) age of 18-75 years old, male or female; 2) After rectal resection or one month after stoma closure, patients met LARS diagnosis and LARS score =21; 3) signed the informed consent.
1) undergoing other types of colorectal cancer surgery or resection of other intestinal segments, such as Hartmann surgery, abdominopelvic resection, transanal endoscopic microsurgical resection or sigmoid colon resection; 2) other pelvic surgeries for non-tumor reasons; 3) preoperative fecal incontinence; 4) a history of mental disorders, alcohol or drug abuse; 5) patients with inflammatory bowel disease and irritable bowel syndrome; 6) receiving acupuncture and moxibustion within 1 month; 7) with implantable medical devices such as cardiac pacemaker; 8) Participate in other clinical research.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Change in LARS score from baseline at week 8;
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method ARS score change from baseline;Wexner score for diarrhea;Blinded evaluation;Proportion of patients with reduced degree of bowel dysfunction;EORTC-QLQ-C30 Quality of Life Questionnaire;Subjective distress of bowel symptoms;Credibility and expectation evaluation;Bristol Bowel Diary;Quality of Life Scale for patients with fecal incontinence;