Clinical Study on Electroacupuncture Therapy for Chronic Neck Pain

Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Neck Pains

Treatments: Other: comprehensive treatment; Device: acupuncture

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01674387

64385700

ZYSNXD-CCHPGC-JD-007 (Other Identifier)

Details and patient eligibility

About

Purpose of this test 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.

Full description

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.

Enrollment: 60 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Age of a subject is older than 18 and is younger than 65.
2. With more than 3 months history of neck pain.
3. Informed consent is signed by a subject or his lineal relation.

Exclusion criteria

1. With serious protopathy or disease ofcardiovascular,liver,renal,gastrointestinal, hematological systems and so on.
2. Psychotic，patients with allergic constitution or easily getting infected or bleeding.
3. Patients have used drugs for preventing neck pain in the last four weeks.
4. Pregnant women or women in lactation.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

acupuncture

Experimental group

Description:

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.

Treatment:

Device: acupuncture

comprehensive treatment

Other group

Description:

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.

Treatment:

Other: comprehensive treatment