[PDF] Top 20 Acupuncture for chronic low back pain: protocol for a multicenter, randomized, sham controlled trial

... The Korean version of Beck's Depression Inventory (BDI) [22] is a 21-item self-administered questionnaire. It provides a quantitative measure of depressive symptoms. Each item has a 0-3 response format, giving a ... See full document

... Back pain patients are often dissatisfied with conventional medical care [6], especially in comparison to care pro- vided by non-MD's including CAM practitioners ...[7-10]. Back pain is the ... See full document

... the sham BVA ...with Low Back Pain from the spine center of KHUHGD and will be encour- aged to exercise according to the manual during the en- tire treatment ...the trial period, all ... See full document

... who visit one of the four Korean medicine hospitals will be informed about the study. They will be also informed about expected benefits and risks and that they are able to withdraw from the study at any visit. If they ... See full document

... a multicenter, randomized, active-con- trolled, assessor-blinded trial with two parallel ...The trial will be conducted in the following two hospi- tals after obtaining permission from the ... See full document

... Sinew acupuncture, a specific modality of acupunc- ture, was named by Professor Nongyu ...the pain) along the meridian sinew pathway to achieve therapeutic effects [22, ...for pain man- agement ... See full document

... alleviate pain of ...to chronic daily or rebound headaches, so patients with headaches symptoms more than a few days a week should be on headache prophylactic therapy ... See full document

... to acupuncture needles and has been widely practiced and has been indicated in some cases where treatment with traditional acupuncture (or another tech- nique) has ...manual acupuncture, low ... See full document

... uncomplicated low back pain, except when severe or progressive deficits are present or when serious potential factors are suspected ...with low back ...of low back ... See full document

... a multicenter, single blind, factorial randomized controlled clinical ...receive acupuncture at local acupoints in combination with distal ...receive acupuncture at local acupoints in ... See full document

... single-blinded, randomized, sham-controlled trial was ...be randomized into one of five groups (35 patients in each group) as follows: a traditional acupuncture group (group A), ... See full document

... on acupuncture for CLBP have used manual acupuncture with equivocal results ...that acupuncture led to greater improvement in pain and function compared with usual care (medical visits, ... See full document

... includes dummy variables for the full relaxation massage and focused structural massage groups, Time is a series of dummy variables indicating the follow-up times, and z is a vector of covariates representing other ... See full document

... including pain, urinary symptoms, and QoL impact; (d) change in the International Prostate Symptom Score (IPSS); (e) change in the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS); (f ) expectation assessments; (g) ... See full document

... As a long-term complication stemming from the disrup- tion of lymph flow, breast cancer related lymphedema (BCRL) is a distressing problem afflicting around 20% of women who underwent breast cancer treatment, and is ... See full document

... This randomized, sham-controlled, participant-blinded and assessor-blinded pilot trial is underway in ...real acupuncture and the other with sham acupuncture, for 10 ... See full document

... The primary hypothesis is that 12 weeks of yoga will be more effective than education for improving pain and function. For both outcomes, we will determine if yoga is superior to education based on a longitudinal ... See full document

... that acupuncture was an effective method for treating chronic osteoarthritis pain, the thera- peutic effect of acupuncture persisted with the progress of time and could not be explained by the ... See full document

... The parameters for scalp acupuncture are set as follows: two to three needles penetrating through the top midline, the motor region, and the sensory region of the lesion side. The parameters for the affected side ... See full document

... for acupuncture is ...of acupuncture under real-life conditions ...clinical acupuncture research is through pragmatic trials where acupuncture is compared to standard care rather than ... See full document