Effect of single point acupuncture for headache in acute care: a single centre, prospective randomized controlled trial
试验速览
- 阶段
- 2/3 期
- 状态
- 尚未招募
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 40
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- Visual analogue scale (VAS)
研究概览
简要总结
Migraine and tension-type headache give rise to notable health, clinically, migraine is characterised by hemicranial throbbing pain, which may or may not be accompanied by vomiting, nausea, photophobia (heightened sensitivity to light), phonophobia (heightened sensitivity to sound), and temporary neurological symptoms
Tension-type headache is essentially defined as bilateral headache of a pressing or tightening quality without a known medical cause. Tension-type headache is classified as episodic if it occurs on less than 15 days a month and as chronic if it occurs more often
Hence due to the adverse effects of the drug’s taken people are opting for non-pharmacological interventions, any action that does not use medication and is intended to improve an individual’s health is referred to as non-pharmacologic interventions (NPI). This includes complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) techniques, which have become more and more common among headache sufferers in recent years, non-pharmacological treatments are typically well tolerated and can be helpful in helping patients control their pain. A expanding array of non-pharmacological therapeutic modalities have demonstrated encouraging efficacy, such as acupuncture, psychotherapy, physiotherapy and non-invasive or invasive neuromodulation.
Acupuncture is one of the NPI, which is chosen widely due to its high efficacy and less side effects. The World Health Organization defines acupuncture (zhen) in their 2007 as: “the insertion of needles into humans or animals for remedial purposes or its methodsâ€. (19) Anecdotal studies have shown that acupuncture can be helpful in managing the headache.
So, the present study was designed to assess the influence of single point acupuncture on headache.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Coin toss, Lottery, toss of dice, shuffling cards etc
- 盲法
- None
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18.00 Year(s) 至 65.00 Year(s)（—）
- 性别
- All
入选标准
- •Met current International Headache Society (IHS) and International Classification of Headache Disorders (ICHD-2) criteria for migraine (with or without aura) at time of entry into the study 2) Who reported an average of at least two headaches per month are eligible.
排除标准
- •Participants who are taking more than three medications (including over-the-counter) specifically for migraine at the time of interview, or 2) Had failed triptan therapy in the past.
- •History of any current co-morbid illness.
- •Onset of headache disorder less than one year before or at age 50 or older 5) Pregnancy 6) Malignancy 7) Cluster headache (IHS code 3) 8) Suspicion that headache disorder had specific aetiology (IHS code 5-11) 9) Cranial neuralgias (IHS code 12); and 10) Acupuncture treatment in the previous 12 months.
结局指标
主要结局
Visual analogue scale (VAS)
时间窗: Baseline and immediately after the intervention
次要结局
未报告次要终点
研究者
Dr Pavan B Mulimani
Sri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara College of Naturopathy and Yogic Sciences, Ujire