Randomized Controlled Trial of Acupuncture to Treat Bell's Palsy According to Different Stages

Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Status: Completed

Conditions: Bell's Palsy

Treatments: Other: acupuncture and moxibustion; Other: electroacupuncture; Other: acupuncture along yangming tendons; Other: acupuncture

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00608660

2006BAI12B03

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this trial will certify the efficacy of using staging acupuncture and moxibustion to treat Bell's Palsy

Full description

The result of this trial (available in 2009) aims to testify the efficacy of using staging acupuncture and moxibustion to treat Bell's Palsy, and to approach a best acupuncture treatment among these five different methods for treating Bell's Palsy

Enrollment: 900 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 15 to 70 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• patients who meet the diagnosis, stages, location criteria
• the first time to onset the disease
• between 1 and 70 days with the onset time of facial palsy
• on one side of the face paralysis
• between 15 and 70 years old with the onset age of facial palsy
• willing to finish the whole observation period
• with written consent form signed by themselves.

Exclusion criteria

• facial palsy caused by other disease, such as infectivity multiple radiculitis, tumor which offend temporal bone, cerebral trauma
• facial palsy combine diabetes, the severe disease of heart vessel, cerebral vessel, liver, kidney, lung, and psychosis
• patient with Hunt's syndrome
• patient with facial spasm
• pregnant women or women in lactation
• patients are participating other clinical research

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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900 participants in 5 patient groups

A

Experimental group

Description:

staging acupuncture for treating Bell's Palsy

Treatment:

Other: acupuncture

Other: acupuncture

B

Experimental group

Description:

staging acupuncture and moxibustion for treating Bell's Palsy

Treatment:

Other: acupuncture and moxibustion

C

Experimental group

Description:

staging electroacupuncture for treating Bell's Palsy

Treatment:

Other: electroacupuncture

D

Experimental group

Description:

staging acupuncture along Yangming musculature for treating Bell's Palsy

Treatment:

Other: acupuncture along yangming tendons

E

Experimental group

Description:

non-staging acupuncture for treating Bell's Palsy

Treatment:

Other: acupuncture

Other: acupuncture