Randomized, Blinded, Sham-controlled Trial of Acupuncture for the Management of Joint Pain in Patients With Psoriasis

Status

Terminated

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT02047851

Enrollment

Registered

2014-01-28

Start date

2014-10-31

Completion date

2018-05-09

Last updated

2019-10-16

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Conditions

Arthralgia, Psoriasis

Brief summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether acupuncture is helpful for patients with joint pain associated with psoriasis

Detailed description

In this study, patients with psoriasis and joint pain will receive either real acupuncture or sham acupuncture to see if acupuncture can be an effective treatment of joint pain in patients with psoriasis.

Interventions

OTHERAcupuncture

Patients are randomized to real acupuncture or sham acupuncture if they are in the intervention group

Study design

Allocation

RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

TRIPLE (Subject, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor)

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to No maximum

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Plaque psoriasis * Pain from at least two peripheral joints and/or inflammatory back pain * No or stabile treatment of the psoriasis the last 3 months * No or stabile pain treatment the last 3 months * Oral and written information given * Written consent signed

Exclusion criteria

* Arthritis with Ultrasound verified intra articular fluid og clinical verified joint swelling * Pregnancy og breastfeeding * Previous treatments with acupuncture * Treatment with anticoagulants (vitamin K-antagonists, low molecular weight heparin, unfractionated heparin, direct thrombin inhibitors, direct factor Xa inhibitors) * Unwilling to follow protocol

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Pain measured on the VAS	From day 0 to day 60 of the trial	Patients will record their level of pain in a journal each day, ranging from 0 to 10 where 0 is no pain and 10 is worst possible pain.
Improvement in life quality measured with the DLQI (Dermatology Life Quality Index)	From day 0 to day 60 of the study period	On day 0, 30 and 60 the patients will fill out a simple questionnaire with 10 questions concerning their life quality

Secondary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Approvement in skin lesions	From day 0 to day 60 of the study period	At each of the 3 control visits the patients will be asked if their psoriatic skin lesions have become better from the acupuncture, and if they say yes, how much better? Minimal improvement, moderate improvement og big improvement?

Countries

Denmark

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026