Parkinson Disease Clinical Trial
Official title:
Acupuncture in the Treatment of Fatigue in Parkinson's Disease: a Pilot Randomized Controlled Study
This study evaluates the efficacy of acupuncture in the treatment of fatigue in participants with Parkinson's Disease. Half of participants will receive real acupuncture while the half will receive placebo acupuncture.
This will be a single centre, single blinded 2-group randomized controlled study, with
participants receiving either verum acupuncture or placebo acupuncture.
A retractable non-invasive placebo needle will be used in the placebo arm. Both the real and
placebo needles have a fine needle body and copy handle and look exactly the same. However,
the placebo needle has a retractable shaft and blunt tip. When pressed onto the skin, it
telescopes into the handle and the blunt tip stays on the skin instead of penetrating it. The
plastic tube with adhesive foot-plate is placed on the skin to hold it in place. The real
needle, on the other hand, has a normal sharp tip which allows it to pierce the skin.
The following acupoints will be needled: Stomach 36 (bilateral), Spleen 6 (bilateral), Kidney
3 (bilateral), Large Intestine 4 (bilateral), Pericardium 6 (bilateral), and Conception
Vessel 6. These points were chosen based on Traditional Chinese Medicine theory (which
attributed fatigue to deficiencies of spleen, kidney and qi).
Each acupuncture session will be based on a strict protocol, and conversation between
acupuncturists and participants will be kept to a minimum.
Participants will be assessed at 3 intervals:
1. Week 0 (baseline)
2. Week 5 (completion of intervention)
3. Week 9 (4 weeks after completion of intervention
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