A multicentre randomised trial comparing exercise, acupuncture and electro-acupuncture for people with shoulder pain

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital0 个研究点目标入组 234 人开始时间: 2015年7月27日最近更新: 2018年1月8日

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•1. Patients referred to physiotherapy departments who have pain in the region of their shoulder
•2. Minimum duration of symptoms being 3 months
•2. Being able fully communicate in English
•3. A minimum age of 18 years

•1. Pain referred from the cervical spine
•2. A history of shoulder instability, subluxations, dislocations
•3. Un-united fractures involving the shoulder
•4. Malunion or non-union of fractures
•5. Inability to participate in an exercise programme
•6. Systemic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, uncontrolled blood pressure, cardiac disease, renal insufficiency, cardiac pacemakers, hearing aids
•7. Women who are pregnant, attempting to become pregnant
•8. Fear of needles (participants may be randomised to a group where acupuncture needles will be used).
•9. Infections (systemic or local)
•10. Fragile, swollen, thin or inflamed skin
•11. Post-surgical lymphoedema
•12. Known allergy to metals
•13. Recent oral steroid therapy or shoulder injections
•14. Epilepsy
•15. Patients on anti-coagulation therapy
•16. Patients with Hemophilia

发起方

Chelsea and Westminster Hospital