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Prednisone and Acupuncture for the Treatment of Facial Neuritis: a Multiple Center, CER in China

NCT01201642 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 1800

Last updated 2014-08-20

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Summary

The aim of this study is to compare the effects of prednisolone and staging acupuncture in the recovery of the affected facial nerve, and to verify that whether in combination with staging acupuncture is more effective than prednisolone alone for Bell's palsy in a large number of patients.

Conditions

  • Bell's Palsy

Interventions

DRUG

Prednisolone

Prednisolone as 5 mg tablets will be given as a single dose of 40 mg daily for 10 days; the dose will then be reduced by 10 mg per 5 day, with a total treatment time of 20 days.

DEVICE

acupuncture

The acupuncture points used were Dicang (ST4), Jiache (ST6), Yangbai (GB14), Xiaguan (ST7), Taiyang (EX-HN5), Quanliao (SI18) and Yifeng (TE17) on the affected side, and Hegu (LI4) bilaterally. For acute stages acupuncture, shallow puncturing is used at facial acupoints and routine puncturing is used at other acupoints. For resting stage acupuncture, penetrative needling is used from Dicang (ST4) to Jiache (ST6) and from Taiyang (EX-HN5) to Quanliao (SI18) 2-3 cun, and routine puncturing is used at other acupoints. Filiform needles (33 - 49.5 mm, 0.32 mm) will be used with moderate stimulation to get an acupuncture sensation, and the needles were retained for 30 minutes, once a day, five times a week, for a total period of four weeks.

OTHER

other treatment

common medicine or other physical treatment which are different from those 5 Arms Previously.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Xijing Hospital

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Gang Zhao, MD · the Department of Neurology , Xijing Hospital

  • Feng Xia, MD · the Department of Neurology , Xijing Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2010-09-30
Primary Completion
2014-12-31
Completion
2015-04-30

Countries

  • China

Study Locations

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