Effectiveness of Pharmacopuncture for Chronic Neck Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT04035018
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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)
In this study, the investigators will evaluate the efficacy and safety of pharmacopuncture therapy for chronic neck pain compared to physical therapy.
Study details
- Official title
- A Study on the Effectiveness of Pharmacopuncture for Chronic Neck Pain: A Protocol for a Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Procedure: pharmacopuncture therapy
- Procedure: Physical therapy
- Sponsor
- Jaseng Medical Foundation
- Start date
- 2019-09-18
- Primary completion
- 2020-06-25
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 19 Years to 70 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- South Korea
- Total sites listed
- 4
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Neck pain more than 6 months * VAS of neck pain more than 5 * Age between 17 and 70 years old * Participants who wrote informed consent Exclusion Criteria: * Migration of cancer reaching to spine, fracture of spine * Progressive neurologic deficits or severe neurologic deficits * Cancer, fibromyalgia, RA, or goat * Stroke, MI, kidney disease, dimentia, diabetic neuropathy, or epilepsy * Participants taking steroid, immunosuppressant, or psychotropic medication * Hemorrhagic disease, severe diabetes or taking anticoagulant drug * Participants who took NSAIDs or pharmacopuncture within 1 week * Pregnant or lactating women * Participants who had undergone cervical surgery within 3 months * Participants who had participated in other clinical trial within 1 month, or have plan for participation in other trial during follow up period of this trial * Participants who can not write informed consent * Participants who is difficult to participate in the trial according to investigator's decision
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04035018