The Effect of Noxipoint Therapy Versus Physical Therapy With TENS on Chronic Neck Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT01844167
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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)
Chronic cervical pain is a common problem in rehabilitation clinic, but the treatment is time consuming and the effect unsatisfactory. Noxipoint® Therapy, developed by Dr. Charles C. Koo, is a unique electrical stimulation precisely on corresponding "Noxipoints®" of each injured soft tissue, with specific duration and intensity of TENS that induce C-fiber nerve ending sensation. Each application typically last for 2 to 5 minutes. Based on observations of the clinical application, Noxipoint® Therapy appears to relieve chronic neck and shoulder pain significantly with lasting effect, and effectively improves the range of motion. However, large-scale double-blinded, randomized control study on the therapy is not available yet. The purpose of this study is to compare the effect of Noxipoint® Therapy and physical therapy (including the current TENS application) on patients with chronic neck pain. This study is a prospective stratified randomized control trial. Eighty subjects with chronic cervical pain will be recruited from the Rehabilitation Department or the Physical Therapy Center of National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH). The qualified subjects will be stratified and randomly allocated into two arms, 40 persons in each: 1. Physical Therapy group (PT) 2. Noxipoint Therapy group (NT) Subjects in either group will be treated for up to 6 sessions within 3 weeks, about 1.5 hours per session. The treatment will terminate after six sessions or earlier if the patient shows no symptoms. Subjects will be evaluated before and after the first treatment session and followed up at about 4 weeks, 8 weeks, and 12 weeks after the first treatment. Outcome measures are (1) the pain scale in the Brief Pain Index, (2) cervical Range of Motion (ROM), (3) Quality of Life (QoL) measured with the Interference of Pain to Life section in the Brief Pain Index (BPI) and (4) ultrasound elastogram. Pain scale, ROM and QoL measures will be taken before and after the first treatment session, an…
Study details
- Official title
- The Effect of Noxipoint™ Therapy Versus Physical Therapy With Transcutaneous Electrical Never Stimulation on Chronic Cervical Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Procedure: Noxipoint Therapy (NT)
- Procedure: Physical therapy(PT)
- Sponsor
- National Taiwan University Hospital
- Collaborators
- Pain Cure Center, California
- Start date
- 2013-04
- Primary completion
- 2014-10
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 20 Years to 70 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Taiwan
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * 20 to 70 years of age * Diagnosed as chronic cervical pain syndrome (ICD9: 723.1) * Having no less than 6 months of the pain history * The pain level \>＝ 5 in BPI * with trigger points. Exclusion Criteria: * cervical spondylosis * local corticoid injection within last two weeks * signs of psychosomatic illness * unwilling to be randomized * pregnant woman
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01844167