The Effectiveness of Chuna Maintenance Therapy for Chronic Bothersome Neck Pain

Jaseng Medical Foundation

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Chronic Pain; Neck Pain

Treatments: Procedure: Chuna Maintenance Therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06591221

JS-CT-2024-02

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study is a pragmatic randomized controlled study that assessed 250 subjects complaining of chronic bothersome neck pain with mild discomfort in a 1:1 ratio: chuna maintenance therapy group (125 subjects, 1 time/2 weeks, total 20 weeks) and lifestyle management & self-exercise group (125 subjects, exercise method education 1 time/4 weeks, total 20 weeks).

Enrollment: 250 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 19 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion and exclusion criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Aged 19 or older but under 70.
  2. Neck pain with pain duration of 12 months or longer
  3. NRS of neck pain over the past month is 2 or more but less than 4
  4. Patients who have agreed to trial participation and provided written informed consent

• Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Patients diagnosed with serious pathology(s) which may cause neck pain (e.g. spinal metastasis of tumor(s), acute fracture, spinal dislocation)
  2. Patients with progressive neurologic deficit or severe neurologic symptoms such as spinal cord injury
  3. Patients whose pain is due to soft tissue disease not the spine (e.g. tumors, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, gout)
  4. Patients with other chronic disease(s) which may interfere with treatment effect, safety, or interpretation of outcome (e.g. stroke and myocardial infarction, kidney disease, diabetic neuropathy, dementia, epilepsy)
  5. Patients currently taking steroids, immunosuppressants, medicine for mental illness or other medication(s) that may interfere with study results
  6. Pregnant patients or patients with plans of pregnancy or lactating patients
  7. Patients within 3 months after cervical surgery
  8. Patients with experience of participating in another clinical study within 1 month or plan to participate in another clinical study during the study participation and follow-up period within 6 months from the participation date
  9. Patients having difficult to completing the written informed consent
  10. Patients who are deemed unsuitable by the researchers

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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250 participants in 2 patient groups

Chuna maintenance therapy group

Experimental group

Description:

This group will receive chuna therapy determined by the clinician based on the subject's symptoms, degree of improvement, etc. (1 time/2 weeks, total 20 weeks)

Treatment:

Procedure: Chuna Maintenance Therapy

Lifestyle management & self-exercise group

Other group

Description:

This group will perform lifestyle management and daily self-exercise. The exercise education will be performed per 4 weeks for total 20 weeks.

Treatment:

Procedure: Chuna Maintenance Therapy