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NCT number NCT05263856
Other study ID # CMUH111-REC2-026
Secondary ID 1-CMUBHR109-005
Status Not yet recruiting
Phase N/A
First received
Last updated
Start date March 7, 2022
Est. completion date October 31, 2022

Study information

Verified date March 2022
Source China Medical University Hospital
Contact Yi-Chuan Chang, M.D.
Phone +886-5-7837901
Email d5715@mail.bh.cmu.edu.tw
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

This study protocol is mainly focus on the patients, who suffer pain, swelling, or range of motion limitation after total knee replacement (TKR) surgery procedure,would be relieved by use non-invasive laser acupuncture to stimuli on 1) the reflection areas of ear acupuncture point associated knee and pain mechanism; 2) muscle trigger points around knee joint with adequate frequency and energy power to stimuli.


Description:

Traditional Chinese acupuncture has a history of several thousand years. The World Health Organization has published guidelines describing the efficacy of acupuncture in the cure or relief of 64 different symptoms and conditions as one of the most representative intangible cultural heritage of humanity. However, for the need of patients and the gradual progress of technology, the applications of laser acupuncture become widespread. Laser acupuncture (LA) is not only applicated to stimuli specific areas in need, but also one of non-invasive intervention technic with hurtless intervention, no hematoma, bleeding or swelling unpleasant feeling after intervention, which could be more accepted by children, weakness people, and patients who afraid of acupuncture. To the area that traditional Chinese acupuncture could not stimuli easily of some area reflect to brain precisely, laser acupuncture is comparably convenient to supply adaptive energy input. The goals of this study protocol is focus on the patients who accept total knee replacement (TKR), who usually suffer pain, swelling, or range of motion limitation after TKR surgery procedure, and the investigators want to use non-invasive LA to stimuli on 1) the reflection areas of ear acupuncture point associated knee and pain mechanism; 2) myofascial trigger points around knee joint, which may affect functional performance and prognosis after TKR procedure, with adequate frequency and energy power to stimuli, to observe the efficacy of LA on pain relief, swelling decline, and range of motion in knee joint improvement. One the one side, the investigators want to shorten the period of recovery, accelerate the function performance, and enhance the quality of life of patients after TKR procedure by LA intervention,on the other side, the investigators also want to confirm the value and curative effect of LA on clinical application and to evoke new idea for further development to traditional Chinese acupuncture.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Not yet recruiting
Enrollment 30
Est. completion date October 31, 2022
Est. primary completion date October 31, 2022
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender All
Age group 45 Years and older
Eligibility Inclusion Criteria: - Inpatients who completed total knee replacement (TKR) during hospitalization - Understands and obeys conventional treatment instructions - Subjects who are willing to receive laser acupuncture treatment Exclusion Criteria: - There are contraindications to general treatment, such as serious medical problems, recent serious trauma, or pregnant and lactated women. - There has been a history of drug abuse (including excess alcohol) that affects pain assessment. - Infection, ulcer or injury on the local skin surface at the intervention site - Aphasia, inability to answer questions - Cognitive impairment, unable to cooperate with the experiment

Study Design


Intervention

Device:
laser acupuncture
The parameter setting of 810nm wavelength laser acupuncture device in 1) ear were irradiated with a 4mm probe, adjusted to Nogier A frequency for acute treatment, and the pulsed mode was irradiated with an emission frequency of 200mW for 10seconds, each acupoint provided 1 joule of energy with total of 12joules,and 2) myofascial trigger point were irradiated with a 10mm probe, adjusted to Nogier C frequency for muscle treatment, and the pulsed mode was irradiated with an emission frequency of 500mW for 20 seconds, each acupoint provided 5 joule of energy with total of 50 joules, providing a total of 62 joules of one intervention session.

Locations

Country Name City State
Taiwan China Medical University Beigang Hospital Beigang Yunlin

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
China Medical University Hospital

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Taiwan, 

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Changes from Visual Analog Scale for myofascial trigger points A Visual Analog Scale consists of a line, often 10 cm long, with verbal anchors at either end, on left of line, zero, meant no pain otherwise on right, 10, meant strong pain. The patient places a mark at a point on the line corresponding to the patient's rating of pain intensity. The 1 day Before the first laser acupuncture and the 1 day after the last laser acupuncture intervention
Primary Changes from WOMAC scale of Knee (modified in Chinese) The Western Ontario and McMaster Universities Arthritis Index (WOMAC) is widely used in the evaluation of Knee and other osteoarthritis. This modified version is a self-administered questionnaire consisting into 4 subscales and mainly focus on functional performance: pain and ability to walk, pain and ability to go up and down stairs, knee swelling, and the range of motion of knee flexion. Baseline (Before surgery), 1 month after surgery, and 3 months after surgery
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