The Effectiveness of Pharmacopuncture on Acute Tension Headache

Tension Headache Clinical Trial

Official title: The Effectiveness and Safety of Pharmacopuncture on Inpatients With Tension Headache Caused by Traffic Accidents: A Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

This study is a double blind, randomized controlled trail. condition/disease: acute tension headache treatment/intervention: Pharmacopuncture

Clinical Trial Description

"Pharmacopuncture is a treatment that combines 2 of the most frequented Korean medicine treatment methods - traditional acupuncture and herbal medicine - by injecting herbal medicine extract at acupoints.

This treatment is known to be an important part of Korean medicine treatment. However, there has been no specific value for the effect of this treatment.

Therefore, the investigators are going to conduct a randomized controlled trials to verify the efficacy and safety of Pharmacopuncture. From September 2022 to December 2023, the investigators are going to collect 80 inpatients who are suffering from Tension headache with the numeric rating scale(NRS) over 5 after injury by acute traffic accident(TA). For experimental group(n=40), the investigators will conduct Pharamacopuncture on suboccpital muscle three times(on 2nd, 3rd and 4th day of hospitalization) and other Korean medical treatment. For control group(n=40), just Korean medical treatment except Pharamacopuncture on suboccpital muscles will be conducted.

For these two groups, the investigators will compare Numeric Rating Scale(NRS) of headache, NRS of Neck pain, Headache Disability Index(HDI), Headache Impact Test-6(HIT-6), EuroQol 5-Dimension (EQ-5D-5L) and Patient Global Impression of Change (PGIC)." ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Headache
• Tension Headache
• Tension-Type Headache

• NCT number: NCT05549765
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: Jaseng Medical Foundation
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: September 8, 2022
• Completion date: April 4, 2023