[PDF] Top 20 Acupuncture as prophylaxis for menstrual related migraine: study protocol for a multicenter randomized controlled trial

... Background: Menstrual-related migraine is a common form of migraine affecting >50% of female ...migraineurs. Acupuncture may be a choice for menstrual-related ... See full document

... two-arm randomized clinical trial will be performed in the following three medical centers: the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University (about 400 breast cancer patients seen annually), the ... See full document

... mechanisms have not been fully elucidated. IBS is also as- sociated with various psychosocial and environmental fac- tors, including early life stress, food intolerance, antibiotic abuse, and intestinal infections. In ... See full document

... This trial was designed to evaluate the add-on effects of acupuncture for migraine ...episodic migraine is considered more important than the treatment for acute attacks for patients with ... See full document

... Our study will be propa- gated by local newspapers, health-related TV programs, the internet, and posters in communities and ...with study coordinators to discuss the study and provide ... See full document

... Patients completed the EuroQol 5-Dimension (EQ-5D) [20] at baseline, and at the 6, 8, 12 and 24-week follow- ups. EQ-5D is a generic questionnaire that measures the quality of life regarding personal health. It consists ... See full document

... this trial by means of multiple comparisons of four different arms (affected meridian acupuncture, non-affected meridian acupuncture, inva- sive sham acupuncture, and waiting-list groups) to ... See full document

... including prior experience of medication side effects [10], leading to poor BP control [11]. Uncontrolled BP maybe related to side effects or interactions of antihypertensives and this observation is more commonly ... See full document

... the acupuncture effect, which may explain patients’ positive beliefs and expectations of benefit of acupuncture and a benign acupuncturist- patient relationship ...this trial will demonstrate that ... See full document

... of migraine prophylactic therapy are to (1) reduce attack frequency, severity, and duration, (2) improve responsiveness to treatment of acute attacks, and (3) improve function and reduce ... See full document

... several randomized controlled trials have been conducted to evaluate its potentials in clinical ...in acupuncture administration, and the possible placebo effects of ... See full document

... participation. Participation in the study is completely voluntary. Patients will be able to withdraw at any time. The decision to participate or withdraw will not affect their existing treatment or service ... See full document

... all related to the limbic-paralimbic-neocortical network (LPNN) ...is related to the release of multiple neurotransmitters, such as serotonin (5-HT) and dopamine, which may induce an analgesic ef- fect ... See full document

... this study is based on standards established under the Consolidated Standards of Reporting Trials (CONSORT) [18] and Revised Standards for Report- ing Interventions in Clinical Trials of Acupuncture ... See full document

... examined acupuncture for potential anti-inflammatory effects [10,11,22,28], only one showed an anti-inflammatory effects with decreased rheumatoid factor, IgA, IgG levels, and decreased T cell activity with no ... See full document

... FGR is the most important determinant of perinatal outcome in pregnancies with impaired utero-placental perfusion, at worst resulting in perinatal death. The relevance of reducing the occurrence, rate and extent of FGR ... See full document

... ized controlled trial from Abraham et ...This trial showed a successful examination rate of 46 % in the group without ...our trial, we adopted the same endpoint definition to facilitate using ... See full document

... Background: Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) is a common problem. In the Netherlands, yearly 64.000 new patients, of whom 96% are women, consult their general practitioner because of urinary incontinence. Approximately ... See full document

... This trial also has limitations: 1) Only part of the patients with swallowing disorders received VFSS at base- line and 3 weeks after treatment, because some participates’ had to be excluded based on their ... See full document

... Although 90 Y-RE is increasingly used in clinical practice, there is no high quality clinical evidence to justify this. Lewandowsky et al. [10] retrospectively analyzed HCC patients with disease beyond the Milan criteria ... See full document