[PDF] Top 20 Efficacy and safety of acupuncture for chronic dizziness: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

... of dizziness have concluded that no medication in current use has well-established curative or prophylactic value or is suitable for long-term palliative use ...as acupuncture, should be considered and ... See full document

... The evaluation of each assessment scale will be per- formed by an investigator blinded to the assigned group. A baseline assessment will include Fisher grade (FG), HHS, modified Rankin Scale (mRS), NO and endothelin-1 in ... See full document

... The exclusion criteria are: (1) abnormal pulmonary function test (forced vital capacity, or forced expiratory volume in 1 s, < 80 % of predicted); (2) abnormal chest X-ray; (3) acute respiratory disease, including ... See full document

... c. Efficacy analysis: The subjects ’ time to first passage of flatus will be used as the primary outcome measure to evaluate the efficacy and safety of APP in treating gastrointestinal dysfunction ... See full document

... other chronic diseases including liver or kidney disease, cerebrovascular disease, leukemia, thrombocytopenia with bleeding tendency, or severe osteo- porosis, (4) a severe psychiatric or psychological disorder ... See full document

... Stratified blocked randomization is used in this study. Stratification is performed on enrolling centers and block length will be decided by an independent coder, using the software called Package for ... See full document

... the study begins to ensure a standardization of the ...sham acupuncture groups will receive a total of 8 sessions (2 sessions per week) of acupuncture treatment for 4 ...Each acupuncture ... See full document

... of clinical experience. The acupuncturist will use a metronome to maintain the rhythm. Before applying the needling manipulations, the acupuncturist will repeat- edly practice the manipulations on an ATP-II acupunc- ture ... See full document

... Methods/design: This study is designed as a randomized, placebo-controlled, multi-center, double-blind clinical trial with parallel groups. A total of 200 patients with CHF will be recruited ... See full document

... the acupuncture group or the sham acupuncture ...this trial will provide high-quality evidence on the efficacy of acupuncture for treatment of ... See full document

... of acupuncture includes non-acupoint acupuncture [50], superficial acupuncture [51], and sham acupuncture [52] (the needles do not penetrate the ...of acupuncture: acu- puncture works ... 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

... the efficacy, we choose sham EA as a pla- ...that acupuncture has no significant differencescompared to sham acupuncture ...the efficacy of EA for severe chronic functional ... See full document

... Background: Chronic pancreatitis (CP) is a progressive, fibro-inflammatory disease characterized by enzymatic autoactivation and subsequent fibrotic replacement of acinar ...current study will assess the ... 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

... of acupuncture in asthma treatment due to poor trial quality, which needed further research ...this randomized controlled trial, we aim to evaluate the ef- fect of acupuncture in ... See full document

... the safety and tolerability profile of the study drug dexa- methasone has been well-characterized, allowing a clear understanding of the difference between drug-related and disease-related ...this ... See full document

... as dizziness, nausea, and postural hypotension, which also reduce patients’ compliance to treatments ...that acupuncture may be a potential treatment for CP/ CPPS [21 – ...the efficacy of ... See full document

... Thread-embedding acupuncture (TEA) is a new subtype of acupuncture treatment developed from catgut-embedding ...obesity, chronic urticaria, peri- menopausal syndrome, and depressive neurosis ... See full document

... the study at any ...the study but are taking medica- tion, the investigator will determine the day of screening according to the participant’s medication to give a wash- out ...receive acupuncture ... See full document