Electroacupuncture for Poststroke Patients With Shoulder Pain — EAPSSP  

Stroke Clinical Trial

Official title: Effectiveness and Safety of Electroacupuncture for Poststroke Patients With Shoulder Pain: Study Protocol for a Multicenter, Randomized, Patient and Assessor Blinded, Sham Controlled, Parallel, Clinical Trial

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

This is a multicenter, randomized, sham-controlled, patient- and assessor-blinded, and parallel trial to explore the effectiveness and safety of electroacupuncture (EA) therapy, compared with sham EA, for poststroke shoulder pain.

Clinical Trial Description

This study is aimed at showing the effectiveness and safety of electroacupuncture therapy for the stroke survivors with shoulder pain. 60 stroke survivors with shoulder pain will be enrolled in two traditional Korean medicine hospitals and randomly divided into either of verum or sham electroacupuncture group with 1:1 of allocation ratio. The participants will receive 9 sessions of electroacupuncture procedures for 3 weeks. Patients and outcome assessors will be blinded from the beginning to the study completion. Visual analogue scale will be primarily evaluated, and pain rating scale, Fugl-Meyer assessment upper extremity, modified Ashworth scale, manual muscle test, passive range of motion, Korean version of modified Barthel index, and Korean version of Beck depression inventory will be measured, too. Blinding index will be assessed. For safety, adverse events will be collected. ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Cerebral Hemorrhage
• Cerebral Infarction
• Hemorrhage
• Infarction
• Shoulder Pain
• Stroke
• Stroke, Complication

• NCT number: NCT03086863
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Kyunghee University
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: April 3, 2017
• Completion date: November 29, 2017