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Efficacy and safety of electroacupuncture in treatment of cervical spondylosis: A protocol of randomized controlled trial
BACKGROUND: Cervical Spondylotic radiculopathy (CSR) is the most common spinal degenerative disease. Its clinical manifestations are pain and numbness in the neck and arm and limitation of neck movement, which greatly affects the life and work of patients. Acupuncture and electroacupuncture are comm...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8104160/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33950931 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000025570 |
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author | Zhou, YaZhou Wang, WenGang Tian, Ke Huang, Hui Jia, Mengrui |
author_facet | Zhou, YaZhou Wang, WenGang Tian, Ke Huang, Hui Jia, Mengrui |
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description | BACKGROUND: Cervical Spondylotic radiculopathy (CSR) is the most common spinal degenerative disease. Its clinical manifestations are pain and numbness in the neck and arm and limitation of neck movement, which greatly affects the life and work of patients. Acupuncture and electroacupuncture are commonly used in China, the efficacy of acupuncture has been confirmed. Existing evidence shows that electroacupuncture seems to be better than acupuncture, but there is a lack of clinical research to directly compare the two. METHODS: This is a prospective randomized controlled trial to compare the efficacy of electroacupuncture and acupuncture in the treatment of CSR and to explore the safety and potential mechanism of electroacupuncture in the treatment of CSR. Approved by the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of our hospital, the patients are randomly divided into an experimental group (electroacupuncture group) or control group (acupuncture group). The patients are followed up for 30 days after 4 weeks of treatment. Observation indexes included VAS score, Neck Disability Index, Yasuhisa Tanaka 20 Score Scale, adverse reactions and so on. Finally, the data will be analyzed by SPSS 18.0 software. DISCUSSION: This study will directly compare the advantages and disadvantages of electroacupuncture and acupuncture in the treatment of CSR. The results of this study will help to guide patients with CSR to choose appropriate treatment. TRIAL REGISTRATION: OSF Registration number: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/9MKPN |
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spelling | pubmed-81041602021-05-10 Efficacy and safety of electroacupuncture in treatment of cervical spondylosis: A protocol of randomized controlled trial Zhou, YaZhou Wang, WenGang Tian, Ke Huang, Hui Jia, Mengrui Medicine (Baltimore) 3800 BACKGROUND: Cervical Spondylotic radiculopathy (CSR) is the most common spinal degenerative disease. Its clinical manifestations are pain and numbness in the neck and arm and limitation of neck movement, which greatly affects the life and work of patients. Acupuncture and electroacupuncture are commonly used in China, the efficacy of acupuncture has been confirmed. Existing evidence shows that electroacupuncture seems to be better than acupuncture, but there is a lack of clinical research to directly compare the two. METHODS: This is a prospective randomized controlled trial to compare the efficacy of electroacupuncture and acupuncture in the treatment of CSR and to explore the safety and potential mechanism of electroacupuncture in the treatment of CSR. Approved by the Clinical Research Ethics Committee of our hospital, the patients are randomly divided into an experimental group (electroacupuncture group) or control group (acupuncture group). The patients are followed up for 30 days after 4 weeks of treatment. Observation indexes included VAS score, Neck Disability Index, Yasuhisa Tanaka 20 Score Scale, adverse reactions and so on. Finally, the data will be analyzed by SPSS 18.0 software. DISCUSSION: This study will directly compare the advantages and disadvantages of electroacupuncture and acupuncture in the treatment of CSR. The results of this study will help to guide patients with CSR to choose appropriate treatment. TRIAL REGISTRATION: OSF Registration number: DOI 10.17605/OSF.IO/9MKPN Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2021-05-07 /pmc/articles/PMC8104160/ /pubmed/33950931 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000025570 Text en Copyright © 2021 the Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 (CCBY), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) |
spellingShingle | 3800 Zhou, YaZhou Wang, WenGang Tian, Ke Huang, Hui Jia, Mengrui Efficacy and safety of electroacupuncture in treatment of cervical spondylosis: A protocol of randomized controlled trial |
title | Efficacy and safety of electroacupuncture in treatment of cervical spondylosis: A protocol of randomized controlled trial |
title_full | Efficacy and safety of electroacupuncture in treatment of cervical spondylosis: A protocol of randomized controlled trial |
title_fullStr | Efficacy and safety of electroacupuncture in treatment of cervical spondylosis: A protocol of randomized controlled trial |
title_full_unstemmed | Efficacy and safety of electroacupuncture in treatment of cervical spondylosis: A protocol of randomized controlled trial |
title_short | Efficacy and safety of electroacupuncture in treatment of cervical spondylosis: A protocol of randomized controlled trial |
title_sort | efficacy and safety of electroacupuncture in treatment of cervical spondylosis: a protocol of randomized controlled trial |
topic | 3800 |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8104160/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33950931 http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/MD.0000000000025570 |
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