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Acupuncture Combined With Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Are There Additional Benefits?

NCT01112943 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 44

Last updated 2012-08-14

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The hypothesis of this study was that acupuncture in conjunction with standard care of pulmonary rehabilitation improves outcome measures compared to pulmonary rehabilitation alone.

Conditions

Interventions

OTHER

Acupuncture

Acupuncture on predefined points for 20min once a week over seven weeks

OTHER

Pulmonary Rehabilitation

a seven week pulmonary rehabilitation course

OTHER

Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Twice a week for seven weeks. Each session lasting 2 hrs (1hr exercise and 1hr education

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University College Dublin

    collaborator OTHER

  • Beaumont Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Richard W Costello, Professor · Beaumont Hospital

  • Brona Fullen, DR · University of College, Dublin

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
SUPPORTIVE_CARE
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
35 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-07-31
Primary Completion
2008-11-30
Completion
2009-01-31

Countries

  • Ireland

Study Locations

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Diseases

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