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Acupuncture at local and distal points for chronic shoulder pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial
BACKGROUND: Chronic shoulder pain (CSP) is the third most common type of musculoskeletal pain. It has a major impact on health-related quality of life. In Chinese medicine, CSP is considered one of the conditions most amenable to treatment with acupuncture. The purpose of this study is to evaluate t...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4012183/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24742182 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-15-130 |
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author | Fu, Qing-Nan Shi, Guang-Xia Li, Qian-Qian He, Tian Liu, Bao-Zhen Sun, San-Feng Wang, Jun Tan, Cheng Yang, Bo-Feng Liu, Cun-Zhi |
author_facet | Fu, Qing-Nan Shi, Guang-Xia Li, Qian-Qian He, Tian Liu, Bao-Zhen Sun, San-Feng Wang, Jun Tan, Cheng Yang, Bo-Feng Liu, Cun-Zhi |
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description | BACKGROUND: Chronic shoulder pain (CSP) is the third most common type of musculoskeletal pain. It has a major impact on health-related quality of life. In Chinese medicine, CSP is considered one of the conditions most amenable to treatment with acupuncture. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of local acupoints in combination with distal acupoints in pain relief and shoulder function improvement in CSP patients. METHODS/DESIGN: This is a multicenter, single blind, factorial randomized controlled clinical trial. A total of 164 participants will be randomly allocated to four different groups: Group A will receive acupuncture at local acupoints in combination with distal acupoint. Group B will receive acupuncture at local acupoints in combination with distal non-acupoint. Group C will receive acupuncture at local non-acupoints in combination with distal acupoint. Group D will receive acupuncture at local non-acupoints in combination with distal non-acupoint. Each group will receive 12 treatments of acupuncture one to three times per week for six weeks in total. The primary outcome is shoulder pain intensity, which is graded using a 100 -mm Visual Analogue Scale. The assessment is at baseline (before treatment initiation), 6 weeks after the first acupuncture, 10 weeks after the first acupuncture and 18 weeks after the first acupuncture. DISCUSSION: This trial will be helpful in identifying 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: ISRCTN61861069 (http://www.controlled-trials.com). |
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spelling | pubmed-40121832014-05-20 Acupuncture at local and distal points for chronic shoulder pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial Fu, Qing-Nan Shi, Guang-Xia Li, Qian-Qian He, Tian Liu, Bao-Zhen Sun, San-Feng Wang, Jun Tan, Cheng Yang, Bo-Feng Liu, Cun-Zhi Trials Study Protocol BACKGROUND: Chronic shoulder pain (CSP) is the third most common type of musculoskeletal pain. It has a major impact on health-related quality of life. In Chinese medicine, CSP is considered one of the conditions most amenable to treatment with acupuncture. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of local acupoints in combination with distal acupoints in pain relief and shoulder function improvement in CSP patients. METHODS/DESIGN: This is a multicenter, single blind, factorial randomized controlled clinical trial. A total of 164 participants will be randomly allocated to four different groups: Group A will receive acupuncture at local acupoints in combination with distal acupoint. Group B will receive acupuncture at local acupoints in combination with distal non-acupoint. Group C will receive acupuncture at local non-acupoints in combination with distal acupoint. Group D will receive acupuncture at local non-acupoints in combination with distal non-acupoint. Each group will receive 12 treatments of acupuncture one to three times per week for six weeks in total. The primary outcome is shoulder pain intensity, which is graded using a 100 -mm Visual Analogue Scale. The assessment is at baseline (before treatment initiation), 6 weeks after the first acupuncture, 10 weeks after the first acupuncture and 18 weeks after the first acupuncture. DISCUSSION: This trial will be helpful in identifying 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: ISRCTN61861069 (http://www.controlled-trials.com). BioMed Central 2014-04-17 /pmc/articles/PMC4012183/ /pubmed/24742182 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-15-130 Text en Copyright © 2014 Fu 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 credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Study Protocol Fu, Qing-Nan Shi, Guang-Xia Li, Qian-Qian He, Tian Liu, Bao-Zhen Sun, San-Feng Wang, Jun Tan, Cheng Yang, Bo-Feng Liu, Cun-Zhi Acupuncture at local and distal points for chronic shoulder pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
title | Acupuncture at local and distal points for chronic shoulder pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
title_full | Acupuncture at local and distal points for chronic shoulder pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
title_fullStr | Acupuncture at local and distal points for chronic shoulder pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
title_full_unstemmed | Acupuncture at local and distal points for chronic shoulder pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
title_short | Acupuncture at local and distal points for chronic shoulder pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
title_sort | acupuncture at local and distal points for chronic shoulder pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial |
topic | Study Protocol |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4012183/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24742182 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-15-130 |
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