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Acupuncture at local and distant points for tinnitus: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Tinnitus is the perception of a sound in the absence of an objective physical source. Up to now, there is no generally accepted view how these phantom sounds come about, and also no efficient treatment. Patients are turning to complementary or alternative medical therapies, such as acupu...

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Autores principales: Shi, Guang-Xia, Han, Li-Li, Liu, Li-Ying, Li, Qian-Qian, Liu, Cun-Zhi, Wang, Lin-Peng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3575364/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23176350
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-13-224
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author Shi, Guang-Xia
Han, Li-Li
Liu, Li-Ying
Li, Qian-Qian
Liu, Cun-Zhi
Wang, Lin-Peng
author_facet Shi, Guang-Xia
Han, Li-Li
Liu, Li-Ying
Li, Qian-Qian
Liu, Cun-Zhi
Wang, Lin-Peng
author_sort Shi, Guang-Xia
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description BACKGROUND: Tinnitus is the perception of a sound in the absence of an objective physical source. Up to now, there is no generally accepted view how these phantom sounds come about, and also no efficient treatment. Patients are turning to complementary or alternative medical therapies, such as acupuncture. Based on the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, acupoints located on both the adjacent and distal area of the disease can be needled to treat disease. Furthermore, the way of combining acupoints is for strengthening the curative effect. We aim to evaluate the efficacy of acupuncture at local points in combination with distal points in subjective tinnitus patients. METHOD: This trial is a randomized, single-blind, controlled study. A total of 112 participants will be randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups receiving acupuncture treatment for 4 weeks. The primary outcome measure is subjective tinnitus loudness and annoyance perception, which is graded using the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). The assessment is at baseline (before treatment initiation), 4 weeks after the first acupuncture session, and 8 weeks after the first acupuncture session. DISCUSSION: Completion of this trial will help to identify whether acupuncture at local acupoints in combination with distal acupoints may be more effective than needling points separately. TRIAL REGISTRATION: International Standard Randomized Controlled Trial Number Register: ISRCTN29230777
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spelling pubmed-35753642013-02-22 Acupuncture at local and distant points for tinnitus: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial Shi, Guang-Xia Han, Li-Li Liu, Li-Ying Li, Qian-Qian Liu, Cun-Zhi Wang, Lin-Peng Trials Study Protocol BACKGROUND: Tinnitus is the perception of a sound in the absence of an objective physical source. Up to now, there is no generally accepted view how these phantom sounds come about, and also no efficient treatment. Patients are turning to complementary or alternative medical therapies, such as acupuncture. Based on the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, acupoints located on both the adjacent and distal area of the disease can be needled to treat disease. Furthermore, the way of combining acupoints is for strengthening the curative effect. We aim to evaluate the efficacy of acupuncture at local points in combination with distal points in subjective tinnitus patients. METHOD: This trial is a randomized, single-blind, controlled study. A total of 112 participants will be randomly assigned to one of four treatment groups receiving acupuncture treatment for 4 weeks. The primary outcome measure is subjective tinnitus loudness and annoyance perception, which is graded using the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS). The assessment is at baseline (before treatment initiation), 4 weeks after the first acupuncture session, and 8 weeks after the first acupuncture session. DISCUSSION: Completion of this trial will help to identify whether acupuncture at local acupoints in combination with distal acupoints may be more effective than needling points separately. TRIAL REGISTRATION: International Standard Randomized Controlled Trial Number Register: ISRCTN29230777 BioMed Central 2012-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC3575364/ /pubmed/23176350 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-13-224 Text en Copyright ©2012 Shi et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Shi, Guang-Xia
Han, Li-Li
Liu, Li-Ying
Li, Qian-Qian
Liu, Cun-Zhi
Wang, Lin-Peng
Acupuncture at local and distant points for tinnitus: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
title Acupuncture at local and distant points for tinnitus: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
title_full Acupuncture at local and distant points for tinnitus: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
title_fullStr Acupuncture at local and distant points for tinnitus: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
title_full_unstemmed Acupuncture at local and distant points for tinnitus: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
title_short Acupuncture at local and distant points for tinnitus: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
title_sort acupuncture at local and distant points for tinnitus: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
topic Study Protocol
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3575364/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23176350
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-13-224
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