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Efficiency Study About the Effect of Acupuncture on Postoperative Pain After Total Knee Arthroplasty

NCT02456116 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 90

Last updated 2015-05-28

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Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the use of needle acupuncture in comparison to a conventional postoperative pain management in terms of reducing pain and pain medication use in an interdisciplinary setting in a controlled, randomized study design after implantation of total knee arthroplasty .

Conditions

  • Pain, Postoperative

Interventions

DEVICE

acupuncture/PCA/NSAID

standard program with defined points: 1. Ear acupuncture needles bitten once (day 0-5) 2. Body acupuncture, once a day 20 minutes (day -1/ 0/ 2/ 4), depth of the prick 0.5 - 1 cm, with DeQI feeling/sensation is released

DEVICE

sham acupuncture/PCA/NSAID

standard program with defined points: 1. Ear acupuncture needles bitten once (day 0-5) 2. Body acupuncture, once a day 20 minutes (day -1/ 0/ 2/ 4), depth of the prick 0.5

OTHER

PCA/NSAID

standard boli of morphine by pressing a button of PCA

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Medical Scientific Fund of the Mayor of Vienna

    collaborator OTHER

  • Medical University of Vienna

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Gerhard M Hobusch, Dr. · Medical University of Vienna, Department of Orthopaedics

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-09-30
Primary Completion
2015-09-30
Completion
2015-09-30

Countries

  • Austria

Study Locations

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