[PDF] Top 20 Acupuncture for patients with functional dyspepsia: study protocol of a randomised controlled trial

... this trial, we have conducted a multicentre ran- domised trial to assess the effect of acupuncture for patients with ...the trial, 712 patients with FD were randomly assigned to ... See full document

... (manual acupuncture, MA) ...previous study, we demonstrated that lifting-inserting needle manipulations with a frequency of 2 or 3 Hz could better inhibit acute visceral nociception in rats with gastric ... See full document

... proposed trial, which is designed to answer the pragmatic research question that relates to the overall benefit to ...the trial, so that we can adequately describe inputs associated with putative ... See full document

... (2)In the nutrition drinking test session, subjects will be asked to consume canned drinks in the morning after an overnight fast. We will use the same procedures as those described in a previously reported ... See full document

... Methods: Patients with postprandial distress syndrome, a functional dyspepsia subtype, will be recruited at three hospitals (two in Korea and one in USA) for an international, multi-center, ... See full document

... the study were changed, then the efficacy of the acupuncture would be ...56 patients in each group is estimated to have 80% power to detect significant differences between the EA group and the SA ... See full document

... Functional dyspepsia (FD) is defined as the presence of early satiation, postprandial fullness, epigastric pain, or epigastric burning in the absence of an organic, sys- temic, or metabolic disease that ... See full document

... to acupuncture treatment for FD. Changes in ghrelin level after acupuncture, therefore, may not completely explain how acupuncture might work for symptom improvement in patients with ...of ... See full document

... 30,000 patients (2 to 3% of all hospital patients) are admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) every ...medical patients, the rest surgical ...surgical patients were hospitalised ... See full document

... According to the theory of traditional Chinese medicine, De Qi, or the arrival of Qi, is pivotal for effective acu- puncture therapy, which may alleviate the pain by elim- inating the obstruction to the flow of Qi. ... See full document

... Another study found that severe thrombocytopenia released more inflammatory factors, stimulated endothelial cells, inhibited leukocyte adhesion/activation related signaling pathways, activated complement related ... See full document

... the study data will be manually recorded on the case report form and uploaded to the ...The trial manage- ment team will control data quality through regular meetings and strict trainings to ensure that the ... See full document

... A particular characteristic of advanced Parkinson ’ s disease is the fluctuation of symptoms and on/off periods. The mainstay of management is a pharmacological regimen that becomes increasingly complex as the disease ... See full document

... the study ’ s Independent Data Monitoring and Ethics Committee (IDMEC), will be performed after an appropriate number of patients have reached the six-month follow-up, to con- firm the final sample ...The ... See full document

... pilot study by Rauchensteiner et ...UHR patients to that of CR in 16 patients with schizophrenia and found relatively greater im- provements in cognitive functioning (improved long- term memory ... See full document

... the patients during the ...treats acupuncture therapy knows what treatment the patient has been administered, but he is prohibited from accessing any measurements for out- ...the acupuncture ... See full document

... a trial of a brief psychological intervention found that non attendance for assessment was ...five patients referred to the service completing their sessions ...or acupuncture interventions on the ... See full document

... intervention patients will be offered nicotine replacement therapy tailored to individual ...Participants randomised to the control group will receive standard ... See full document

... randomized controlled, four-arm, large-scale trial comparing three acupuncture groups (using differ- ent acupuncture points) with Mosapride Citrate control group (Figures 1 and ...(three ... 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