The Effect of Integrated CAM Treatment in Hospitalized Patients

Jaseng Hospital of Korean Medicine

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Shoulder Pain; Intervertebral Disc Herniation; Spinal Stenosis; Neck Pain; Knee Pain; Low Back Pain

Treatments: Procedure: Pharmacopuncture; Procedure: Acupuncture; Drug: Herbal medicine; Procedure: Chuna manipulation; Procedure: Bee venom pharmacopuncture

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02257723

JS-CT-2012-03

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study investigates the effect of hospital-based intensive non-surgical treatment in musculoskeletal patients admitted to an integrated hospital that offers both complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and conventional medicine treatment.

Full description

This study investigates the effect of hospital-based intensive non-surgical treatment in musculoskeletal patients admitted to an integrated hospital that offers both complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and conventional medicine treatment.

Inpatients received treatment according to a CAM treatment protocol (herbal medicine, acupuncture, bee venom pharmacopuncture, and Chuna manipulation) and conventional medicine treatment as needed. The main outcome measures were the duration of pain, NRS of back pain, radiating leg pain, neck pain, radiating arm pain, knee pain, shoulder pain, previous surgery, previous interventions (injections), Oswestry Disability Index (ODI), Vernon-Mior Neck Disability Index, the Korean Western Ontario McMaster Index, Shoulder Pain and Disability Index, range of motion (ROM), Straight leg raise test (SLR), alcohol use, smoking at admission, 2 weeks, and discharge.

Enrollment: 100,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients hospitalized due to spine or joint diseases

Exclusion criteria

• Main complaint other than back pain, radiating leg pain, neck pain, radiating arm pain, knee pain or shoulder pain
• Cause of pain non-related to spine, joint or soft tissue; for example, spinal tumors, pregnancy, urolithiasis, etc.
• Refusal to provide the information needed for clinical research