[PDF] Top 20 Acupuncture at local and distant points for tinnitus: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

... with an enormous social and economic demand for therapeutic treatment [4,5]. Pharmacotherapy (antide- pressants, benzodiazepines), cognitive therapies, or elec- tronic devices that try to cancel the tinnitus have ... See full document

... Our study has several limitations. First, it is a non-blind trial; therefore, psychological factors of the therapist and subjects can cause ...for tinnitus [10]. Third, there is no ... See full document

... of acupuncture are due to the psychological factors ...of acupuncture treatment for primary ...for tinnitus, although there was pilot, sham-controlled and double-blind trial to verify ... See full document

... factorial randomized controlled clinical ...receive acupuncture at local acupoints in combination with distal ...receive acupuncture at local acupoints in combination with distal ... See full document

... a study protocol for a multicenter, three-arm parallel, assessor blinded, randomized controlled ...a local distribution acupoint (LA) group, a local-distal acupoint (LDA) group, ... See full document

... Any AE and SAE, and how they are dealt with, will be recorded during the four treatment weeks and 20 follow-up weeks. AEs include bleeding, hematoma, faint- ing, severe pain, and local infection. Any SAE ... See full document

... the acupuncture points to be used for treatment are selected according to the meridian diagnosis of TCM, which is primarily guided by where the pain is located and where it radiates ...selecting ... See full document

... the acupuncture group will take treatment with needles inserted at the prespecified acu- puncture ...The protocol including obligatory and additional acupoints was developed from the clinical experience of ... See full document

... elicit needle sensation (de qi) at the main acupoints detailed above, with a needling depth of 30 mm. The needles will re- main for 30 minutes per treatment, and the treatments are given five times per week. At the same ... See full document

... PSMD. Acupuncture may be beneficial for patients with PSMD, but no randomized controlled trial has confirmed its ...provide study protocol of a randomized ... See full document

... Statistical analysis will be performed by using the software program Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS 15.0, Chicago, IL, USA). Participants’ demographic in- formation and levels of major measured ... See full document

... of acupuncture treatment is always an issue. For this blind-controlled study, STRICTA suggests active acupuncture control, penetrating needle control, or non- penetrating sham needling ... See full document

... Manual stimulation will be applied to the body acu- points until the patients experience De qi (get Qi). Patients experience De qi as multiple unique sensa- tions at the needle site itself and around the site of ... See full document

... a study design and protocol of a randomized, blinded, controlled study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of electro-acupuncture in the consciousness recovery of patients with ... See full document

... the acupuncture points used will be Dicang (ST4), Jiache (ST6), Yangbai (GB14), Xiaguan (ST7), Taiyang (EX- HN5), Quanliao (SI18) and Yifeng (TE17) on the affected side, and Hegu (LI4) ...the ... See full document

... of acupuncture in treating FMS. One well-designed study [30] randomised 100 FMS patients into among four groups (one given true acupuncture, and the other three, sham acupuncture), with two ... See full document

... of acupuncture in the management of LBP, but review conclusions are sometimes contradict- ory and often limited by the number and quality of the included studies ...of acupuncture, some studies report that ... See full document

... reported randomized, controlled trial on the efficacy and tolerability of traditional Chinese acu- puncture compared with electro-acupuncture and sham acupuncture in patients with ... See full document

... receive acupuncture treat- ment during the first eight ...and acupuncture experi- ence, Baihui (GV20), Shenting (GV24), Yintang (GV29), Qihai (RN6), Guanyuan (RN4) and bilateral Anmian (EX-HN22), Sanyinjiao ... See full document

... this study is to evaluate the efficacy of both telephone-administered CBT and befriending on outcomes for patients with diagnosed COPD who have at least mild levels of depression and/or ... See full document