Lu's Acupuncture Protocol for Chronic Neck Pain
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 已完成
- 发起方
- 入组人数
- 60
- 主要终点
- the short-form McGill Pain Questionnaire
研究概览
简要总结
Purpose of this test is to observe and objectively evaluate electroacupuncture (EA) therapy on the clinical efficacy in patients with chronic neck pain, and provide a reliable clinical basis for the chronic neck pain treatment and evaluation of efficacy.
详细描述
According to statistics, the incidence of chronic neck pain has significantly increased year by year, particularly tending to younger people, as social competition increase fiercely and the pace of people's daily work and life accelerate. Studying the effective treatment and prevention of chronic neck pain has obvious medical, social and economic significance. Purpose of this trial is to observe and objectively evaluate electroacupuncture (EA) therapy on the clinical efficacy in patients with chronic neck pain, and provide a reliable clinical basis for the chronic neck pain treatment and evaluation of efficacy.
研究设计
- 研究类型
- Interventional
- 分配方式
- Randomized
- 干预模型
- Parallel
- 主要目的
- Treatment
- 盲法
- Single (Participant)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 18 Years 至 65 Years（Adult, Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •Age of a subject is older than 18 and is younger than
- •With more than 3 months history of neck pain.
- •Informed consent is signed by a subject or his lineal relation.
排除标准
- •With serious protopathy or disease ofcardiovascular,liver,renal,gastrointestinal, hematological systems and so on.
- •Psychotic，patients with allergic constitution or easily getting infected or bleeding.
- •Patients have used drugs for preventing neck pain in the last four weeks.
- •Pregnant women or women in lactation.
研究组 & 干预措施
acupuncture
56 patients (the EA group) receive the acupuncture treatment at nine acupuncture points: Dazhui (GV14), bilateral Jianzhongshu (SI15), bilateral Jingbailao (EX HN15), bilateral cervical Jiaji (EX-B2),and two trigger points.Bilateral Jianzhongshu (SI15) and Jiaji (EX-B2) receive the electro acupuncture treatment, with dilatational wave. All the needles retained for 20 minutes, one treatment every other day, 10 times a course, and the treatment assessed after a course.
干预措施: acupuncture (Device)
comprehensive treatment
Other 56 patients (the matched group) receive the comprehensive treatment, including traction and TENS(Transcutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation) therapy. Each treatment 20 minutes, one treatment every other day, 10 times a course, and the treatment assessed after a course.
干预措施: comprehensive treatment (Other)
结局指标
主要结局
the short-form McGill Pain Questionnaire
时间窗: 20 days(One course)
chronic neck pain-the Neck Pain Scale (NPQ)
时间窗: 20 days(One course)
the SF-36 Health Questionnaire combined with Neck Disability Index (NDI).
时间窗: 20 days(one course)
次要结局
- the short-form McGill Pain Questionnaire(one month after a course)
- chronic neck pain-the Neck Pain Scale (NPQ)(one month after a course.)
- the SF-36 Health Questionnaire combined with Neck Disability Index (NDI).(one months after a course)
研究者
Jian Pei,MD
MD,professor
Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine