[PDF] Top 20 Effect of acupuncture on insomnia in menopausal women: a study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

... 8]. Women who experience poor sleep quality during the MT are more likely to have crit- ical problems [9] such as depression, anxiety, memory and cognitive deprivation, cardiovascular disease, and reduced quality ... 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

... medicine, acupuncture provides overall coordination to help the body achieve a state of relative equilibrium of yin and yang, restoring its physiological function and regulating the sleep-awake ...into ... See full document

... The study is a parallel multi-center randomized controlled ...of acupuncture and Western medicine treatments with standard Western stroke treatment given alone during the acute phase (24 ... See full document

... the study acupuncturists will be registered practi- tioners of traditional Chinese medicine with at least 5 years’ clinical experience, as well as a medical education ...The acupuncture treatments and ... See full document

... the study, participants will be re-examined to assess any possible side effects of the ...from acupuncture, such as syncope, local infection, and subcutaneous ...the trial will be imme- diately ... See full document

... Laser acupuncture has been shown to have beneficial effects on ...patient-assessor-blinded, randomized, sham- controlled crossover trial to investigate the effects of laser acupuncture ... See full document

... the study of De Qi and the therapeutic effi- cacy of acupuncture a great ...analgesic effect of acu- puncture, Xiong et ...of acupuncture treatment in patients with primary ... See full document

... the study groups (EG1, EG2, EG3, CG) to ensure internal validity of results according to 1:1:1:1 (equal proportion ...this trial and be concealed to the screeners and assessors until the last outcome ... See full document

... Predictive Analytics Software (PASW, version18.0) is used for data analyses. Exploratory analysis will include the minimum, maximum, median, mean, and standard deviation. For measurement data, a normality test is ... See full document

... All analyses are conducted blinded to group allocation. Missing data are substituted by last value carried forward. The primary analysis is intention-to-treat, comparing mean changes from baseline to end of treatment ... 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 ... 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

... present study, ISI and PSQI will be used to as- sess the insomnia symptom severity, the chief com- plaints of insomnia ...on insomnia because it can directly assess the severity of ... See full document

... Neurocognitive deficits are common in patients with severe TBI. Patients who fail to fully recover conscious- ness may enter a disorder of consciousness (DOC) such as coma, a vegetative state, or a minimally conscious ... See full document

... medicine, acupuncture has been used in many clinical trials in re- cent ...that acupuncture can alleviate postmenopausal-related symptoms, but we were unable to find many trials on the MT ...of ... See full document

... the acupuncture group or the sham acupuncture ...treatment effect (OTE) and the elimination rate of all three cardinal symptoms (postprandial fullness, upper abdominal bloating, and early satiation) ... 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

... that women undergoing IVF are subject to increased stress as both the wait for the outcome and the uncertainty of success cause stress and anxiety ...[11]. Acupuncture may be benefi- cial in alleviating the ... See full document

... numerous study populations [87-89]. We are also evaluating menopausal symptoms using the Menopause Quality of Life instrument ...published study suggests Tai Chi can favorably manage ... See full document