East-West Collaborative Medicine Using Bee-Venom Acupuncture on Whiplash-Associated Disorders

Korean Pharmacoacupuncture Institute

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Whiplash Injuries

Treatments: Device: Bee Venom Acupuncture Therapy; Drug: zaltoprofen

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01369238

KOMC 2010-04

Details and patient eligibility

About

1. Purpose of study

   1. To evaluate the efficacy of East-West collaborative medicine using Bee-Venom Acupuncture Therapy on Whiplash-Associated Disorders using VAS scale
   2. To evaluate the efficacy of East-West collaborative medicine using Bee-Venom Acupuncture Therapy on Whiplash-Associated Disorders using NDI, BDI, SF-36, and EQ-5D.

2. Interventions & Groups

   1. group 1: Bee-Venom Acupuncture Therapy
   2. group 2: zaltoprofen
   3. group 3: Bee-Venom Acupuncture Therapy & zaltoprofen

Enrollment: 90 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 55 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• clinical diagnosis of Whiplash injuries
• Must have cervicalgia of more than VAS 5

Exclusion criteria

• cancer, osteoporosis, ankylosing spodylitis, cauda equina syndrome, infection
• spinal operation
• other musculoskeletal pain
• physicological or mental disorders

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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90 participants in 3 patient groups

Bee Venom Acupuncture & zaltoprofen

Experimental group

Treatment:

Drug: zaltoprofen

Device: Bee Venom Acupuncture Therapy

zaltoprofen

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Drug: zaltoprofen

Bee Venom Acupuncture

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Device: Bee Venom Acupuncture Therapy