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Efficacy of Acupuncture in Exercise Tolerance in Patients With COPD

NCT03767140 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 29

Last updated 2018-12-07

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is nowadays the 4th cause of death in the world and it´s expected to become the 3rd cause of death in 2020 and the majority cause of morbidity. Besides that, in Portugal COPD patients become more dependents each day.

Acupuncture as a reflex therapy it´s carried out through a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) diagnose that will allowed to identify the acupoints.

The investigators are interested in to assess acupuncture efficacy on physical exercise tolerance in COPD patients.An experimental, controlled, randomized, double blind study was done. Patients were recruited according TCM diagnose to optimize potential therapeutic effects.

Conditions

  • Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive

Interventions

PROCEDURE

acupuncture

The patients were randomized in two groups, one verum acupuncture, submitted to real acupuncture treatment, and the other sham acupuncture, treated with false acupuncture

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Henry Greten, Doctor · Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of Porto

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
DOUBLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2018-06-27
Primary Completion
2018-09-25
Completion
2018-11-28

Countries

  • Portugal

Study Locations

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