Comparing the Effect of Laser Acupuncture Alone or Combined With Pranayama Exercise on Inflammatory Status/Markers in Geriatrics With Allergic Rhinitis
试验速览
- 阶段
- 不适用
- 状态
- 招募中
- 入组人数
- 60
- 试验地点
- 1
- 主要终点
- erothrocyte sidemention rate
研究概览
简要总结
Allergic rhinitis (AR) represents one of the most common global health problems with seriously increasing incidence over the last decades.The goal of the treatment of rhinitis is to prevent or reduce the symptoms through reduction of the inflammation of affected tissues. Acupuncture and pranayama yoga exercises had reported a significant improvement in daily symptoms and an increase of symptom-free days in many studies enrolling geriatric patients.
详细描述
Sixty Egyptian geriatrics with allergic rhinitis, after randomization, will be divided to 2 groups; the first 30-geriatric group will receive 3-session per-week laser stimulation for 8 weeks to some selected acupoints and daily pranyama exercises (nearly every session will be one hour, for 8 weeks), the second group will receive 3-session per-week laser stimulation for eight weeks to some bilateral selected acupoints. the stimulated points will be (LI 19, LI 20, ST2, and ST4. ST6, ST7, ST17, ST36, SI18, BL2, GB14, GV24 and EXHN5). Every acupoint will be stimulated with laser power of 100 mw that will be used on a spot area of 1 cm2 for 1 minute.
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 (Outcomes Assessor)
入排标准
- 年龄范围
- 65 Years 至 75 Years（Older Adult）
- 性别
- All
- 接受健康志愿者
- 否
入选标准
- •geriatrics with allergic rhinitis
排除标准
- •chest disease or heart disease or local congenital nose deformities participants received within-previous-eight-months self-prescribed or by-therapist prescribed complementary therapies
结局指标
主要结局
erothrocyte sidemention rate
时间窗: It will be measured after 8 weeks
it is a inflammatory marker in serum
次要结局
- total eosinophil count(It will be measured after 8 weeks)
- C-reactive protein(It will be measured after 8 weeks)
- Immunoglobulin E(It will be measured after 8 weeks)
- interleukin 1-beta(It will be measured after 8 weeks)
研究者
Ali Mohamed Ali ismail
lecturer of physical therapy for Internal Medicine and Geriatrics
Cairo University