Acupuncture Treatment for Improving Alzheimer's Dementia

N & S Neurology Center, A Medical Group

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Alzheimer Disease; Cognitive Deficits

Treatments: Procedure: Acupunture

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Industry

Identifiers

NCT04064021

NS1

Details and patient eligibility

About

Evaluate cognitive improvement pre amd post acupuncture treatment in patients with probable alzheimer's dementia as measured by MOCA score and also per form A( measure of patient's personal information). Also caregiver input.

Full description

Patient's with diagnosis of probable mild to moderate AD will be enrolled in this study. Patient will undergo neurological examination including MOCA. Examiner will also fill out Form A at the time of initial evaluation.

Patient will then undergo series of acupuncture treatments 2 per week for 6 weeks(12 acupuncture treatment). At end of this intervention patients will be reassessed using same testing(MOCA and form A) Data collected will be assessed via statistical analysis to see if there is any statistically significant improvement.

Acupuncture points used in this trial will stay the same for all subjects and throughout the course. The points will be Si Shen Chong, ST36, 37, LV 2,3,6, GB 34, 39, Xia San Huang, LI 11, LI 4.

Sex: All

Ages: 60 to 80 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Mild to moderate AD

Exclusion criteria

• Severe AD

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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0 participants in 1 patient group

Acupuncture

Experimental group

Description:

Acupuncture 12 sessions over 6 week to be given to pateints

Treatment:

Procedure: Acupunture