Pulse Diagnoses in Patients While Dysmenorrhea is Attacking

Dysmenorrhea Clinical Trial

Official title:

The Effect of Acupuncture Treatment of Acupoint San Yin Jiao on the Pulse Diagnoses in Patients While Dysmenorrhea is Attacking

Clinical Trial Details — Status: Completed

Administrative data

• NCT number: NCT03187782
• Other study ID #: TH-IRB-0014-0002
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• First received: May 25, 2017
• Last updated: June 13, 2017
• Start date: February 2014
• Est. completion date: February 2015

Study information

• Verified date: June 2017
• Source: Taipei Hospital, Taiwan
• Contact: n/a
• Is FDA regulated: No
• Study type: Observational

Clinical Trial Summary

The mechanism led to the dysmenorrhea can be understood more clearly and one may have a better idea to treat the disease in the future.

Description:

Background: Pulse diagnosis of the dysmenorrhea patients before and after acupuncture treatment on the acupoint San Yin Jiao (SP6) were performed so that the mechanism led to the pain can be understood more clearly and one may have a better idea to treat the disease in the future.

Methods: Fifteen women participated in the study voluntarily. They have first to fill in the form of Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) for pain. Then the pulse of the subjects were measured by ANSWatch before and after acupuncture. All meridians can be assessed by analyzing the pulse spectra through Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) of the original pulse data. The significant change of amplitude in certain harmonics which corresponds to a specific meridian after acupuncture treatment can be selected out.

Recruitment information / eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Enrollment: 15
• Est. completion date: February 2015
• Est. primary completion date: February 2015
• Gender: Female
• Age group: 12 Years to 55 Years

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

• The inclusion criteria of the subjects were the presence of pain during menstruation or three days before it. It needed to recheck if the menstrual cycle appeared within three days after recruiting if dysmenorrhea attacked before menstruation.

Exclusion Criteria:

• The exclusion criterion was that subjects did not take pain killers in the 12 hours before measurement.

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Dysmenorrhea

Intervention

Diagnostic Test:
• ANSWatch

Locations

Country	Name	City	State
n/a

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor	Collaborator
Taipei Hospital, Taiwan

Outcome

Type	Measure	Description	Time frame	Safety issue
Primary	Patients' radial artery pulses. Change is being assessed.	Get subjects' pulses by ANSWatch	Measure subjects' radial artery pulses before and after acupuncture in 10 minutes respectively.