Quantitative Analysis of Different Acupuncture Needle Manipulation to Treat Chronic Shoulder Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT03197207
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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 plan " Quantitative analysis of different acupuncture needle manipulation to treat chronic shoulder pain "includes an objective observation of acupuncture operation (movement in the form of acupuncture needles, intensity, etc.) and the body (acupoints) reactions. Patients during 20-55 years old suffered shoulder pain more than six weeks with numerical rating scale (NRS) pain intensity more than 5 points, and the previous month were not taking medicine or Western medicine were included. Then use of distal acupoints GB34 and GB39, giving once acupuncture manipulation therapy.
Study details
- Official title
- Quantitative Analysis of Different Acupuncture Needle Manipulation to Treat Chronic Shoulder Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Procedure: "Dragon and Tiger warring" in lifting and thrusting
- Procedure: "Dragon and Tiger warring" in twisting-rotating
- Sponsor
- Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
- Start date
- 2016-06-03
- Primary completion
- 2016-08-25
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 20 Years to 55 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Total sites listed
- 0
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * (A) have agreed to participate in the trial and signed by the Chang Geng Memorial Hospital Human Body Test Committee approved the human test consent. * (B) suffering from chronic shoulder pain (including frozen shoulder, or rotator cuff injury, or subclavian bursitis, Or biceps tendonitis or nonspecific shoulder pain). * (C) at least six weeks before the screening period of shoulder pain, digital grading scale measurement of pain intensity of 5 points or more. Exclusion Criteria: * (A) shoulder fracture * (B) intra-articular infection * (C) stroke hemiplegia * (D) spinal cord injury * (E) postoperative shoulder surgery * (F) pregnant woman, * (G) took traditional Chinese medicine or Western medicine, less than one month before the screening period
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03197207