Chronic Neck Pain
Conditions
Keywords
Cervical pain, Neck pain, western medicine, oriental medicine, acupuncture, needle
Brief summary
The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of East-West collaborative medicine on chronic cervical pain.
Detailed 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
Interventions
PROCEDUREacupuncture
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
Sponsors
Kyunghee University Medical Center
Study design
Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Intervention model
PARALLEL
Primary purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
SINGLE (Investigator)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
ALL
Age
25 Years to 55 Years
Healthy volunteers
No
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
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Pain Scores on the Visual Analogue Scale(VAS) | 7 week |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Neck disability index | 7 week | Neck disability index : questionnaire for measuring how much neck pain affects ability of daily activities |
| Beck depression inventory | 7 week | Beck depression inventory : for assessing depression |
| SF-36 | 7 week | questionnaire for measuring health-related quality of life |
| EQ-5D(EuroQol-5 dimension) | 7 week | questionnaire for measuring health-related quality of life |
Countries
South Korea
Contacts
Primary ContactYu-Jeong Cho, OMD
Outcome results
None listed