Effect of Laser Acupuncture Alone or Combined With Pranayama Exercise on Inflammation in Allergic Rhinitis in Geriatrics

Cairo University (CU)

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Allergic Rhinitis

Treatments: Other: acupoint stimulation by laser; Other: pranayama plus acupoint stimulation by laser

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05915507

P.T.REC/012/004534

Details and patient eligibility

About

Allergic rhinitis (AR) represents one of the most common global health problems with seriously increasing incidence over the last decades.The goal of the treatment of rhinitis is to prevent or reduce the symptoms through reduction of the inflammation of affected tissues. Acupuncture and pranayama yoga exercises had reported a significant improvement in daily symptoms and an increase of symptom-free days in many studies enrolling geriatric patients.

Full description

Sixty Egyptian geriatrics with allergic rhinitis, after randomization, will be divided to 2 groups; the first 30-geriatric group will receive 3-session per-week laser stimulation for 8 weeks to some selected acupoints and daily pranyama exercises (nearly every session will be one hour, for 8 weeks), the second group will receive 3-session per-week laser stimulation for eight weeks to some bilateral selected acupoints. the stimulated points will be (LI 19, LI 20, ST2, and ST4. ST6, ST7, ST17, ST36, SI18, BL2, GB14, GV24 and EXHN5). Every acupoint will be stimulated with laser power of 100 mw that will be used on a spot area of 1 cm2 for 1 minute.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• geriatrics with allergic rhinitis

Exclusion criteria

• chest disease or heart disease or local congenital nose deformities participants received within-previous-eight-months self-prescribed or by-therapist prescribed complementary therapies

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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60 participants in 2 patient groups

pranayama and acupoint stimulation by laser

Experimental group

Description:

the 30-geriatric group will receive 3-session per-week laser stimulation for 8 weeks to some selected acupoints and daily pranyama exercises (nearly every session will be one hour, for 8 weeks), the stimulated points will be (LI 19, LI 20, ST2, and ST4. ST6, ST7, ST17, ST36, SI18, BL2, GB14, GV24 and EXHN5). Every acupoint will be stimulated with laser power of 100 mw that will be used on a spot area of 1 cm2 for 1 minute.

Treatment:

Other: pranayama plus acupoint stimulation by laser

acupoint stimulation by laser

Active Comparator group

Description:

the 30-geriatric group will receive 3-session per-week laser stimulation for 8 weeks to some selected acupoints (LI 19, LI 20, ST2, and ST4. ST6, ST7, ST17, ST36, SI18, BL2, GB14, GV24 and EXHN5). Every acupoint will be stimulated with laser power of 100 mw that will be used on a spot area of 1 cm2 for 1 minute.

Treatment:

Other: acupoint stimulation by laser