The Effectiveness and Cost-effectiveness of Motion Style Acupuncture Treatment (MSAT) for Acute Neck Pain: A Multi-center Randomized Controlled Trial

Jaseng Medical Foundation

Status: Completed

Conditions: Acute Neck Pain

Treatments: Other: Motion Style Acupuncture Treatment (MSAT); Other: Acupuncture

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04539184

JS-CT-2020-08

Details and patient eligibility

About

The investigators will evaluate the comparative effectiveness and safety of Motion Style Acupuncture Treatment (MSAT) therapy for acute neck pain compared to acupuncture.

Full description

This is a multi-center, randomized, controlled, comparative effectiveness clinical trial for acute neck pain. Motion style acupuncture requires a part of the patient's body to move passively or actively while acupuncture needles are retained.

Enrollment: 128 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Neck pain onset or worsen within one month
• VAS of neck pain on movement or at rest of 5 or higher
• Age between 19 and 70 years old
• Participants who wrote a informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Participants who diagnosed with the serious disease that can cause pain (e.g. Migration of cancer reaching to spine, fracture of spine, dislocation of spine)
• Progressive neurologic deficits or severe neurologic deficits
• Participants who diagnosed with a soft tissue disease that can cause pain (Cancer, fibromyalgia, RA, or goat)
• Chronic disease (e.g. Cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, dementia, diabetic neuropathy, or epilepsy)
• Participants taking steroids, immunosuppressants, or psychotropic medication
• Participants who could be inadequate or unsafe at acupuncture (e.g. Hemorrhagic disease, severe diabetes or taking anticoagulant drug)
• Participants who took NSAIDs or acupuncture within 3 days
• Participants who had undergone cervical surgery within 3 months
• Participants who had a traffic accident within a month
• Pregnant or women who planned to conceive
• Participants who had participated in other clinical trial within 1 month, or have plan for participation in other trial within 6 months from enrollment
• Participants who can not write informed consent
• Participants who is difficult to participate in the trial according to investigator's decision

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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128 participants in 2 patient groups

Motion Style Acupuncture treatment

Experimental group

Description:

Motion Style Acupuncture treatment (2-3 times/week, 2 weeks)

Treatment:

Other: Motion Style Acupuncture Treatment (MSAT)

Acupuncture treatment

Active Comparator group

Description:

Acupuncture treatment (2-3 times/week, 2 weeks)

Treatment:

Other: Acupuncture