Acceptability of an Acupuncture Intervention in Painful Elderly
CompletedNot applicableNCT01043692
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
The aim is to investigate the feasibility and efficacy of an acupuncture intervention on persistent MusculoSkeletar pain in a long-term geriatric hospital care ward population. The main issue is the acceptability of this type of complementary and alternative medicine in older people, although the efficacy on pain is assessed too.
Study details
- Official title
- Acceptability of a Strategy Including Acupuncture in the Treatment of MusculoSkeletal Pain in Hospitalised Elderly
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Sponsor
- Assistance Publique - Hôpitaux de Paris
- Collaborators
- Fondation de France
- Start date
- 2007-10
- Primary completion
- 2008-09
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 60 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- France
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * age \> 60 years * chronic musculoskeletal pain * follow up 10 weeks * patient or legal representative's agreement to participate and to the informatics treatment of the data Exclusion Criteria: * acute pain * exclusive neurological pain * coagulation disorders or anticoagulant curative treatment
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01043692