Battlefield Acupuncture With Sodium Hyaluronate Injections

Brooke Army Medical Center

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Knee Osteoarthritis

Treatments: Other: Battlefield Acupuncture

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT03456011

OrthoDSC

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study evaluates pain relief and subsequent range of motion changes combining battlefield acupuncture with sodium hyaluronate vs local anesthetic and sodium hyaluronate

Full description

Sodium hyaluronate is FDA approved for knee osteoarthritis. It is a widely used treatment for this condition. This does provide immediate pain relief and is often used in conjunction with lidocaine and ropivacaine to both improve pain relief and treatment tolerance.

battlefield acupuncture has been showing promise as an adjunct pain relief treatment option. If used during intra articular visco supplementation knee injections, this may provide pain relief and positive changes in range of motion without the need of local anesthetic being injected into the joint space.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients of the BAMC Orthopaedic clinic
• Active duty, dependent and civilians
• Ages 18-65
• Diagnosed with knee osteoarthritis by their Orthopaedic provider
• Determined to be eligible for Sodium Hyaluronate injections by their Orthopaedic provider

Exclusion criteria

• Patient without knee osteoarthritis diagnosis
• Patient requiring immediate surgery for their knee complaints
• Patients younger than 18 or older than 65
• Pregnant patients
• Patients without active pain
• Patients with history of knee arthroplasty
• Patients with auricular deformity which would affect BFA
• Patient with history of vasovagal secondary to needles or injections
• Patients with active infection at BFA treatment sites

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

BFA with Eufflexa injections

Other group

Description:

BFA treatment before Sodium Hyaluronate injections. Intervention: BFA

Treatment:

Other: Battlefield Acupuncture

Anesthetic with Eufflexa injections

No Intervention group

Description:

Receiving Standard of care determined by their provider No interventions