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Lu's Acupuncture Protocol for Chronic Neck Pain

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What is being tested

acupuncture

+ comprehensive treatment

DeviceOther
Who is being recruted

Neurologic Manifestations+2

+ Pain

+ Signs and Symptoms

From 18 to 65 Years
+7 Eligibility Criteria
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How is the trial designed

Treatment Study

Interventional
Study Start: August 2012
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Summary

Principal SponsorShanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Last updated: August 11, 2021
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Study start date: August 1, 2012

Actual date on which the first participant was enrolled.

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.

NCT01674387
Principal SponsorShanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Last updated: August 11, 2021
Sourced from a government-validated database.Claim as a partner

Protocol

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.
Design Details

60 patients to be enrolled

Total number of participants that the clinical trial aims to recruit.

Treatment Study

These studies test new ways to treat a disease, condition, or health issue. The goal is to see if a new drug, therapy, or approach works better or has fewer side effects than existing options.

Eligibility

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria: person's general health condition or prior treatments.
Conditions
Criteria

Any sex

Biological sex of participants that are eligible to enroll.

From 18 to 65 Years

Range of ages for which participants are eligible to join.

Healthy volunteers not allowed

If individuals who are healthy and do not have the condition being studied can participate.

Conditions

Pathology

Neurologic ManifestationsPainSigns and SymptomsPathological Conditions, Signs and SymptomsNeck Pain

Criteria

3 inclusion criteria required to participate
Age of a subject is older than 18 and is younger than 65
Informed consent is signed by a subject or his lineal relation
With more than 3 months history of neck pain
4 exclusion criteria prevent from participating
Patients have used drugs for preventing neck pain in the last four weeks
Pregnant women or women in lactation
Psychotic,patients with allergic constitution or easily getting infected or bleeding
With serious protopathy or disease ofcardiovascular,liver,renal,gastrointestinal, hematological systems and so on

Study Plan

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Treatment Groups
Study Objectives

2 intervention groups are designated in this study

This study does not include a placebo group 

Treatment Groups

Group I

Experimental
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.

Group II

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.

Study Objectives

Primary Objectives

Secondary Objectives

Study Centers

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