Clinical Trial of Traditional Chinese Diaoshi Jifa Therapy of Meniere's Disease (TCDMD)

Beijing Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine Bureau

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 3

Conditions: Meniere's Disease

Treatments: Other: Diaoshi Jifa therapy plus the Western medical treatment.; Other: drug

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01454726

JJT2010-22

Details and patient eligibility

About

The hypothesis of this study is that DiaoShi Jifa reduces the symptoms, such as dizziness in patients with Meniere's disease.

Full description

Created by Dr. Diao, DiaoShi Jifa is a well-known traditional Chinese Medicine approach to treat dizziness in patients with chronic diseases. The investigators designed this randomized clinical trial to examine whether Diaoshi Jifa significantly decreases dizziness in patients with Meniere's disease. There are 2 arms in this trial: One arm is DiaoShi Jifa plus conventional Western medical treatment, another is conventional Western medical treatment only. The dizziness handicap inventory (DHI) will be used to evaluate the treatment effect.

Enrollment: 27 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. Clinical diagnosis of probable Meniere's disease
2. Must be able to receive manual treatment
3. Dizziness Patients receiving other treatment longer than 5 days before entering the study.

Exclusion criteria

1. Patients with critical illness of internal medicine and surgery
2. Patients with spinal disease or other conditions that cannot receive manual treatment.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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27 participants in 2 patient groups

experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

receiving both Diaoshi Jifa therapy and the Western medical treatment.

Treatment:

Other: Diaoshi Jifa therapy plus the Western medical treatment.

control group

Other group

Description:

receiving the Western medical treatment alone.

Treatment:

Other: drug