[PDF] Top 20 Acupuncture for low back pain due to spondylolisthesis: study protocol for a randomized controlled pilot trial

... and spondylolisthesis occur most commonly in the fifth lumbar vertebral body, but may occur at more cephalad lumbar ...and spondylolisthesis are more frequently symptomatic ...with spondylolisthesis ... See full document

... Although acupuncture-related treatments, such as man- ual acupuncture, warm acupuncture, or electroacupunc- ture, have been applied for low back pain due to LDH for ... 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

... 10-week study, no adverse effects of TEA have ...the study participation or the allocated interventions, socioeconomic status and disease dur- ation, were not ...larger-scale study. Also, as the ... See full document

... venom acupuncture (BVA) involves injecting purified and diluted bee venom into acupoints ...cohort study revealed that the bee venom integrative package, which comprises herbal medicines, acupuncture ... See full document

... of acupuncture are also important factors to consider; the advantages of acupuncture are that it is simple, convenient and has few contraindica- ...of acupuncture and EA in the medium term, in ... 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

... This study is a randomized, assessor-blinded, multicenter, clinical trial with two parallel ...receive acupuncture treatment at 11 local and 4 distal acupuncture points for 20 min twice ... See full document

... current study, we will try to provide several objective parameters by using the RSScan gait system (2 m × ...current study, we will collect data of varus angle, dynamic plantar pressure distribution, and ... 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

... 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

... This study is 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 ... See full document

... one study reported improvement in the symptoms of HB and Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) score but not in STAXI and State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI) scores ...the acupuncture used in these stud- ies was ... 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

... decreasing pain and improving function in adults with chronic LBP ...exercise protocol that was prescribed or followed ...our study both groups will receive pamphlets in which all the exercises that ... See full document

... tests, depending on distributions, and Fisher’s exact tests will be used to compare the two treatment groups and confirm that participants had been effectively randomized. To assess efficacy, appropriate linear ... See full document

... both back- related utilization and total medical ...from study records and valued at their actual ...out-of-pocket back-related expenses) is obtained from a cost questionnaire completed by the ... See full document

... acupuncture protocol using the si guan xue for cancer pain management for a larger study and its ...of acupuncture in re- lieving cancer pain and patients’ subjective improvement ... See full document

... the pain by elim- inating the obstruction to the flow of Qi. Similar to pain, De Qi is also a subjective sensation, and it is affected by complicated factors such as emotion and cognition, which makes the ... See full document

... The study is designed as a randomised controlled pilot trial with three arms and partial double ...needle acupuncture, (b) no treatment and (c) press plaster acupressure in a ... See full document