The Effect of East-West Collaborative Medicine on Chronic Cervical Pain

Kyung Hee University

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Chronic Neck Pain

Treatments: Procedure: acupuncture

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01205958

KHU 20091458

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of East-West collaborative medicine on chronic cervical pain.

Full description

Design: This is a randomized, controlled study.

Participants: 45 participants with chronic cervical pain are recruited and randomly assigned to three groups.

Intervention: Over an three-week period, one group(n=15) gets western medicine treatment(drug medication); another group(n=15) gets oriental medicine treatment(individualized needling 2-3 times a week); the other group(n=15) gets western medicine plus oriental medicine treatment for 3 weeks

Enrollment: 45 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 55 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• presence of Chronic neck pain

Exclusion criteria

• Cancer
• Spinal infection
• ankylosing spondylosis
• myelopathy
• moderate hypertension or more
• serious mental disease
• other skeletomuscular disease
• history of operation or acupuncture treatment about spinal disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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45 participants in 3 patient groups

medication(Zaltoprofen)

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: acupuncture

Acupuncture

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: acupuncture

Zalprofen plus Acupuncture

Active Comparator group

Treatment:

Procedure: acupuncture