The Effect of East-West Collaborative Medicine on Chronic Cervical Pain

Chronic Neck Pain Clinical Trial

Official title:

Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Effect of East-West Collaborative Medicine on Chronic Cervical Pain: a Pilot Study

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Recruiting

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT01205958
• Other study ID #: KHU 20091458
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• First received: September 14, 2010
• Last updated: September 20, 2010
• Start date: December 2009
• Est. completion date: February 2011

Study information

• Verified date: September 2010
• Source: Kyunghee University Medical Center
• Contact: Yu-Jeong Cho, OMD
• Phone: +82-2-440-7575
• Email: jamyunghwa[@]hotmail.com
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Health authority: South Korea: Korea Food and Drug Administration (KFDA)
• Study type: Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of East-West collaborative medicine on chronic cervical pain.

Description:

Design: This is a randomized, controlled study.

Participants: 45 participants with chronic cervical pain are recruited and randomly assigned to three groups.

Intervention: Over an three-week period, one group(n=15) gets western medicine treatment(drug medication); another group(n=15) gets oriental medicine treatment(individualized needling 2-3 times a week); the other group(n=15) gets western medicine plus oriental medicine treatment for 3 weeks

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Recruiting
• Enrollment: 45
• Est. completion date: February 2011
• Est. primary completion date: January 2011
• Accepts healthy volunteers: No
• Gender: Both
• Age group: 25 Years to 55 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• presence of Chronic neck pain

Exclusion Criteria:

• Cancer

• Spinal infection

• ankylosing spondylosis

• myelopathy

• moderate hypertension or more

• serious mental disease

• other skeletomuscular disease

• history of operation or acupuncture treatment about spinal disease

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Single Blind (Investigator), Primary Purpose: Prevention

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Chronic Neck Pain
• Neck Pain

Intervention

Procedure:
• acupuncture
Over an three-week period, one group(n=15) gets western medicine treatment(drug medication); another group(n=15) gets oriental medicine treatment(individualized needling 2-3 times a week); the other group(n=15) gets western medicine plus oriental medicine treatment for 3 weeks

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
Korea, Republic of	Kyunghee University East West Neo Medical Center	Seoul

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Kyunghee University Medical Center

Country where clinical trial is conducted

Korea, Republic of, 

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Pain Scores on the Visual Analogue Scale(VAS)		7 week	No
Secondary	Neck disability index	Neck disability index : questionnaire for measuring how much neck pain affects ability of daily activities	7 week	No
Secondary	Beck depression inventory	Beck depression inventory : for assessing depression	7 week	No
Secondary	SF-36	questionnaire for measuring health-related quality of life	7 week	No
Secondary	EQ-5D(EuroQol-5 dimension)	questionnaire for measuring health-related quality of life	7 week	No