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Acupuncture for Back and Neck Pain in an Emergency Room Setting

NCT00859365 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1/PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 65

Last updated 2012-01-31

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

This study aims to examine the efficacy of an Integrative approach utilizing Acupuncture as an add-on therapy for the treatment back and neck pain in an emergency department setting

Acupuncture is well established as an effective treatment for back pain. The investigators cumulative experience in Asaf Harofeh Medical Center has shown Acupuncture to be an Effective therapy for simple back and neck pain in an ER setting.

This study will examine weather Acupuncture can decrease pain, increase range of motion and decrease anxiety in patients admitted to the Emergency Room with simple back and neck pain without neurological findings. Acupuncture will be performed as an add on therapy on top of analgesic therapy.

Conditions

Interventions

PROCEDURE

Real Acupuncture

Real acupuncture treatment in real acupuncture points

PROCEDURE

Placebo Acupuncture

empty plastic acupuncture guide-tube located on the patients back in a non visable area and connected to a visible electric stimulator

PROCEDURE

No intervention

Patients lay down for a period of 35 minutes without any treatment o intervention

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Assaf-Harofeh Medical Center

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Shmuel Bar-Haim, MD · Asaf Harofeh Medical Center, Zerifin, Israel

  • Amos Ziv, M.Sc · Asaf Harofeh Medical Center

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-01-31
Primary Completion
2011-09-30
Completion
2011-09-30

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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