The Effect and Safety of Moxibustion Therapy for Overactive Bladder Patients

Korean Medicine Hospital of Pusan National University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms; Urinary Frequency or Urgency Adverse Event; Hyperthermia; Overactive Bladder

Treatments: Device: moxibustion

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02271607

201405

Details and patient eligibility

About

This pragmatic randomized controlled study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of moxibustion therapy on overactive bladder (OAB) patients.

Full description

Patients who diagnosed as overactive bladder aged 20 to 75 years old will be divided into two groups, one is moxibustion-therapy and the other is waiting-list group.

Patients who belong to moxibustion therapy group will be treated moxibustion for 12 times by a Korean Medicine doctor.

Patients who belong to waiting-list group will be prohibited to get any treatment including moxibustion for relieve the symptoms of overactive bladder, and the same moxibustion therapy with moxbiustion-therapy group will be conducted after 4 weeks.

Overactive bladder symptom score (OABSS), overactive bladder-validated 8-question (OAB-V8) will be measured to evaluate the effectiveness.

The number of side effect will be measured to evaluate the safety.

The skin temperature of CV4, SP6 and LR3, and the tympanic temperature will be measured to study treatment mechanism.

Enrollment: 24 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

1. aged from 20 to 75 years old
2. submit written consent
3. no deficit to notify the hotness promptly and exactly
4. diagnosed with overactive bladder
5. suffering the OAB symptoms during greater than or equal to 3 months

Exclusion criteria

1. malignancy
2. obstructive disease of urinary tract
3. cystocele, vaginocele or rectocele
4. urinary tract infection finding on urine analysis
5. diabetic mellitus
6. sensory disturbance
7. pregnancy, possibility of pregnancy or planning to pregnancy
8. problems to communication due to any medical problem such as cognitive dysfunction
9. getting other treatment of either Traditional Korean Medicine or conventional medicine for overactive bladder
10. psychiatric disorder or severe systemic disease.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Crossover Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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24 participants in 2 patient groups

moxibustion

Experimental group

Description:

A series of moxibustion sessions within four weeks from the baseline followed by observation period of four weeks.

Treatment:

Device: moxibustion

waiting

No Intervention group

Description:

Waiting period of four weeks followed by moxibustion therapy sessions on the same way with moxibustion group.