Acupuncture for Post Operative Pain Following Total Knee or Hip Arthroplasty

Arthroplasty Complications Clinical Trial

Official title:

Acupuncture for Post Operative Pain Following Total Knee or Hip Arthroplasty

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03415204
• Other study ID #: 0104-17-ZIV
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: December 20, 2017
• Est. completion date: December 20, 2018

Study information

• Verified date: January 2018
• Source: Ziv Hospital
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Post operative pain (POP) is a major obstacle on the road to healing, despite the increasing interest in postoperative pain management and development of pain control modalities (1). Postoperative pain is still insufficiently treated with more than 50% of patients suffering from moderate to severe pain early after surgery .Pain after orthopedic surgery is considered especially difficult to manage. Approximately half of total knee or hip arthroplasty patients present with extreme pain immediately after surgery. Total knee and hip arthroplasty often results not only in severe perioperative pain and debilitation, but chronic pain, joint stiffness, and functional disability many months or even years following the procedure. Various modalities of treating orthopedic POP exist, but the optimal management of postoperative pain remains controversial with no clear consensus of the best method.We suggest that acupuncture can be an effective treatment for post operative pain after total knee or hip arthroplasty.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 100
• Est. completion date: December 20, 2018
• Est. primary completion date: December 20, 2018
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: All
• Age group: 18 Years to 80 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• signed informed consent, above 18 years of age, about to undergo total knee or hip arthroplasty

Exclusion Criteria:

• Known mental disease, active cancer disease, coagulopathy, Hepatitis B,C.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Arthroplasty Complications
• Pain, Postoperative

Intervention

Other:
• acupuncture
acupuncture for post operative pain

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Israel	Ziv Medical Center	Safed

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Ziv Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Israel, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	average post operative pain during time of hospitalization	post operative pain will measured twice daily - morning and afternoon during hospitalization time. patients will be asked to rate thier pain on a visual analog scale ranging from 0- no pain to 10 - severe pain	average pain score during 5 days following operation