Acupuncture for Post Operative Pain Following Total Knee or Hip Arthroplasty

Ziv Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Arthroplasty Complications

Treatments: Other: acupuncture

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03415204

0104-17-ZIV

Details and patient eligibility

About

Post operative pain (POP) is a major obstacle on the road to healing, despite the increasing interest in postoperative pain management and development of pain control modalities (1). Postoperative pain is still insufficiently treated with more than 50% of patients suffering from moderate to severe pain early after surgery .Pain after orthopedic surgery is considered especially difficult to manage. Approximately half of total knee or hip arthroplasty patients present with extreme pain immediately after surgery. Total knee and hip arthroplasty often results not only in severe perioperative pain and debilitation, but chronic pain, joint stiffness, and functional disability many months or even years following the procedure. Various modalities of treating orthopedic POP exist, but the optimal management of postoperative pain remains controversial with no clear consensus of the best method.We suggest that acupuncture can be an effective treatment for post operative pain after total knee or hip arthroplasty.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• signed informed consent, above 18 years of age, about to undergo total knee or hip arthroplasty

Exclusion criteria

• Known mental disease, active cancer disease, coagulopathy, Hepatitis B,C.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Double Blind

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

acupuncture

Experimental group

Treatment:

Other: acupuncture

no acupuncture

No Intervention group