[PDF] Top 20 Acupuncture for sequelae of Bell's palsy: a randomized controlled trial protocol

... facial palsy, such as facial nerve decompression, recon- struction of the facial nerve or muscle, and history of acupuncture, moxibustion, vesiculation and massage therapy within three months will also ... See full document

... providing acupuncture treatment after the end of the trial, the “placebo” effect could not be ruled out in the acupuncture group without having a sham acupuncture control group [39, ...sham ... See full document

... All analyses will be done on the intention-to-treat group of participants who have been randomized regardless of whether they receive any treatment. Missing data will be replaced according to the principle of the ... See full document

... extracted: first author, publication year, study location, sample size, mean age, disease stage. Two investigators (Fu-ming Wang and Sha- sha Yu) independently assessed the quality of included studies using the Cochrane ... 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

... an acupuncture treatment group or a control ...of acupuncture and conventional rehabilitation therapies will be applied in the acupuncture ... See full document

... Pragmatic and explanatory randomized controlled trials play a significant part in the evaluation of healthcare in- terventions in China and overseas [29]. Explanatory tri- als are designed to ascertain ... See full document

... Other secondary endpoints are the duration of head- ache attacks, the consumption of pain medication for tension-type headaches, health-related quality of life, ef- fect of headaches on fitness and functional impairments ... See full document

... patient-assessor-blinded, randomized controlled trial with two parallel ...clinical trial, and then randomly assigned to the experimental or sham control groups (19 patients for each ...with ... See full document

... Recovery of function after stroke is a long steady process that continues for several weeks or even months before reaching a stable phase. The effects of acupunc- ture occur within the same time frame. Several previous ... See full document

... [17]. Acupuncture would be help- ful in patients with spondylolisthesis as a safe conservative treatment without severe adverse events as can happen in some surgical procedures, such as transforaminal lumbar ... See full document

... Statistical analysis of all data will be done by the Depart- ment of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, which is blinded to ... See full document

... sham acupuncture, irrelevant acupoints were used with the same manipulation as the verum ...seldom acupuncture-naïve and most are considerably familiar with acupuncture pro- cedure and feeling, this ... See full document

... laser acupuncture compared to sham laser acu- puncture, and to evaluate the feasibility of large clinical ...the trial is designed to only last 8 ... See full document

... The random allocation sequence will be produced by an independent statistician via the PLAN sentences of the statistical software SAS9.1, who works in the Evidence- Based Center of the university and is not involved in ... See full document

... The acupuncture needles will be inserted straightly or obliquely at a depth of 10– 30 mm to effectuate the desired sensation of “De qi” (Table 2) by reinforcing-reducing techniques of lifting, thrusting, twisting, ... See full document

... by acupuncture In our study, the assessment of De Qi sensation perceived by the patients is based on the Chinese version of the ”modified” Massachusetts General Hospital Acu- puncture Sensation Scale (C-MMASS) ... See full document

... inserted into the respective acupoints. The needle will be inserted perpendicularly for PC6 at a depth of 20 mm. For GV26, the needle will be inserted towards the nose at a depth of 5–10 mm. The needle will be ma- ... See full document

... Patients will be excluded if they had previously had surgery to the spinal column, known or suspected serious spinal pathology (e.g., fractures, tumors, inflammatory or rheuma- tologic disorders, or infective diseases of ... See full document

... Since acupuncture is a complex intervention, it is different from ...of acupuncture will be altered, if the acupoints in the study are ...of acupuncture and sham acupuncture responders for OTE ... See full document