Effect of Schroth Exercises Combined With Laser Acupuncture Therapy in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis

Dalian Second People's Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Laser Acupuncture; Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis

Treatments: Behavioral: Schroth exercise therapy; Device: laser therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05823493

DLSP001

Details and patient eligibility

About

The goal of this clinical trial] is to explore the clinical effect of laser acupuncture combined with Schroth training on adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) . The main question[s] it aims to answer are:

• The effects of Schroth exercises on Cobb angles, angle of trunk rotation, spinal mobility, gait parameters and clinical efficacy in patients with AIS.
• Laser acupuncture combined with Schroth method on Cobb angles, angle of trunk rotation, spinal mobility, gait parameters and clinical efficacy in patients with AIS.

Participants will received Schroth exercise therapy and laser acupuncture therapy (MLS laser).

If there is a comparison group: Researchers will compare received Schroth exercise therapy to see the effects of Schroth exercises and laser acupuncture combined with Schroth method on Cobb angles, angle of trunk rotation, spinal mobility, gait parameters and clinical efficacy in patients with AIS

Full description

In this study, the standard control, control group receipts schroth exercise therapy, while trial group receives Schroth exercise therapy and laser therapy. The design of the individual Schroth exercise is carried out according to the c urve patterns of the Schroth classification. The Schroth classification criteria includes four curve patterns that are determined with reference to the location of the curves, the importance of lumbar and thoracic prominences, and the effect of the scoliosis on the pelvis. Laser therapy was performed w ith a dual wavelength, high power IR laser (Multiwave Locked System (MLS®) laser, Mphi, ASA srl, Vicenza, Italy) and the laser acupuncture points include DU2, GB30, DU9, SP6, LR8, DU6, DU4, DU12. Laser puncture acupuncture points had been identified according to Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and treated with handpiece optical group following the detailed treatment parameters: 900Hz, FPW mode, 60 s per point, 29.12J, spot size 3 cm2, energy density 27J/cm2. All treatments are performed five times in a week for 4 consecutive weeks.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 125 to 200 months old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis patients without history of traumas
• positive Adam's Forward Bend Test, Cobb Angle>10°

Exclusion criteria

• functional scoliosis and other structural scoliosis
• Previous history of scoliosis surgery
• Wearing braces and being treated in other ways
• Unable to complete PSSE training actions as required
• Complicated with serious heart, liver, kidney and other systemic diseases

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

the experimental group

Experimental group

Treatment:

Device: laser therapy

Behavioral: Schroth exercise therapy

the control group

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Behavioral: Schroth exercise therapy