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The Effectiveness of Acupuncture Therapy on Pain in Parkinson's Disease

NCT04874090 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 40

Last updated 2021-08-03

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Summary

Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a chronic, progressive, degenerative movement disorder that is characterized by motor and nonmotor symptoms and its incidence increases with age. It has been reported that 40-90% of patients have pain symptoms in PD. Pain can be the result of motor fluctuations, dystonic muscle contractions, deep visceral pain, and musculoskeletal pain.

Conditions

  • Parkinson Disease
  • Pain, Neck

Interventions

OTHER

Acupuncture

Investigator will apply the acupuncture treatment to the first group to the neck area. BL-15, BL-18, BL-23, BL-25, KB-4, Du-20, GB-20, CV-14, KB-10, Ex-26, Yin Tang, Ah-shi points will be used. 0.25x25 mm, sterile, steel, disposable, acupuncture needle will be used for acupuncture points and painful trigger points. The treatment will be applied twice a week, on average 10 sessions. Dry needling treatment will be applied to the patients by a certified physician. All patient will be performed the neck exercises program

OTHER

Exercises

Patient will perform neck exercises

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Abant Izzet Baysal University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Elif Yakşi, MD · Abant İzzet Baysal University Medical Faculty

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
SINGLE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
45 Years
Max Age
75 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2021-05-20
Primary Completion
2021-08-01
Completion
2021-08-01

Countries

  • Turkey (Türkiye)

Study Locations

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