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Tuina for Patients With Chronic Neck Pain

NCT01923493 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 92

Last updated 2015-02-09

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The aim is to evaluate whether tuina is more effective and cost-effective than no intervention waiting list to reduce neck pain measured on a visual analogue scale in patients suffering from chronic neck pain.

Conditions

  • Chronic Neck Pain

Interventions

OTHER

tuina

Patients in the tuina group will receive a tuina therapy (also known as Chinese massage). A Chinese massage lasts about 20 to 30 minutes. A series of 6 sessions with 2 treatments per week is applied.

OTHER

no intervention

Patients in the no intervention waiting list group will not receive a study intervention. They will continue their respective pre-study therapy during the study period.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Charite University, Berlin, Germany

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Claudia M Witt, MD · Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-08-31
Primary Completion
2014-04-30
Completion
2014-06-30

Countries

  • Germany

Study Locations

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