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The Efficacy and Safety of Periocular Acupoint Stimulation on Myopia Progression in Children

NCT02064660 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 20

Last updated 2015-09-03

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Myopia is widely one of the three commonly detected refractive errors. Myopia is usually managed by correction through glasses or contact lenses. Other alternative available include surgery, drugs and acupuncture. There are various therapeutic approaches and different points can be used in acupuncture treatment for myopia, such as auricular acupuncture, acupressure body acupuncture. However, the mechanism of acupuncture therapy for myopia is largely unknown. Furthermore, little information exists regarding the effects and safety of acupuncture for degenerative myopia in children.

The investigators aimed to assess the overall effectiveness, safety of periocular acupressure for children with myopia

The hypotheses of this study are as follows:

Periocular acupressure is effective for myopia progression delay.

The study aims to include 56 participants.

Conditions

  • Myopia

Interventions

DEVICE

massager

The patients will be doing self-stimulation using acupressure device, The acupuncture treatment will be applied two times per day for six months. Acupressure divice will stimulate for 14 minutes. Examples of acupuncture points to be used might include GB1, GB14, TE23, ST1, ST2, BL01, BL02, the Extra-point Tae-yang, In-dang.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine

    collaborator OTHER_GOV

  • Korean Medicine Hospital of Pusan National University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Ki-bong Kim · Pusan National University Korean Medicine Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
7 Years
Max Age
12 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-12-31
Primary Completion
2014-12-31
Completion
2014-12-31

Countries

  • South Korea

Study Locations

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