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Acupuncture Relief for Chronic Neck Pain

NCT03859011 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 75

Last updated 2026-01-20

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Summary

This study will assess the feasibility of measuring the effectiveness of "usual care" for chronic neck pain as defined in the protocol, compared with usual care plus acupuncture, for chronic neck pain. This study's hypothesis is that combining acupuncture with usual care will show a clinically relevant increase in the effectiveness of the integrated therapies, compared with usual care alone. This study will also assess the feasibility of measuring the cost-effectiveness of acupuncture for chronic neck pain. The hypothesis is that in economic evaluation terms, integrating acupuncture with usual care will not create significant overall costs, relative to the benefits which study patients obtain.

Conditions

  • Neck Pain, Posterior

Interventions

OTHER

Acupuncture

Patients will have DBC Spring Ten acupuncture needles (manufactured in China) manually inserted bilaterally on five standardized acupuncture points according to the treatment points of GB20, BL10, BL11, SI3, BL62 at 6-8 mm depth for 20 minutes each using a tonification technique to elicit a de qi response. After those needles are removed, the number of additional needles and additional acupuncture points used will be chosen at the acupuncturist's discretion.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • United States Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth

    collaborator FED

  • Utica College

    collaborator OTHER

  • RAND

    collaborator OTHER

  • 5 Element Institute

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • James Higgins, Captain MC USN ret., DO · Dept of Family Medicine, Naval Hospital Jacksonville

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
CROSSOVER

Eligibility

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

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2022-08-30
Primary Completion
2025-05-01
Completion
2025-05-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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