[PDF] Top 20 Tian Jiu therapy for allergic rhinitis: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

... no rhinitis medicine; 1 = cetirizine, 10 mg/d, or equivalent; 2 = cetiri- zine, 20 mg/d, or equivalent; 3 = systemic or topical corti- costeroids for AR) (daily range; 0 to 3; weekly range: 0 to ... See full document

... clinical study in collaboration with South Korea re- vealed that 4-week long, active acupuncture treatment was significantly better at reducing AR symptoms com- pared with sham acupuncture and non-active treat- ... See full document

... Patients with any of the following conditions will be ex- cluded: (1) Patients are receiving immune therapy. (2) Patients have received systemically administered cortico- steroids, antihistamines, or decongestants ... See full document

... with moderate or severe persistent AR undergo a long- term change in stress status both physically and men- tally. High stimulation activates the HPA axis continu- ously, with excessive secretion of hormones resulting in ... See full document

... treat allergic rhinitis for many years ...case study suggested that sphenopalatine ganglion stimulation with one acupuncture needle, a technique developed by a Chin- ese otolaryngologist and applied ... See full document

... and study physicians who interview and recruit patients are blinded to the group ...the study. However, they will not communicate with the study patients nor participate in the assessment of ... See full document

... This study will be conducted at the Chinese Medicine Clinical Trial Laboratory in Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University, Bundoora West and City ...a randomized, single-blind, ... See full document

... There are several limitations of this trial. First, the number of participants (total 40) is insufficient for a clinical trial. However, our purpose at this time is to check the feasibility of using ... See full document

... initial therapy, defined as absence of fever (temperature > ...be randomized into one of two ...of trial medication t.d.s. Patients are not randomized if: i) they require ICU admission, ... See full document

... the study; the sequence will be stored in a central randomization system (interactive web re- sponse [IWR] ...needle therapy. Regular acupuncture therapy will be performed on the acupuncture ... See full document

... other randomized controlled trial of catgut implantation has been reported in English, although many recent reports in Chinese literatures have reported the efficacy of this intervention for ... See full document

... Besides efforts at minimizing the consequences of this phenomenon, it is essential to find alternative forms of treatment that are both effective and access- ible. In this context, photodynamic therapy (PDT) has ... See full document

... P5 study in standardizing cervical measurements, and at this Moodle platform, all participants of the re- search had signed the disclosure of contractual agree- ments that limit such access for ... See full document

... All patients entering the long-term phase received on- going diabetological treatment as usual by their treating physicians in the diabetological trial center at 3-month in- tervals during the following 12 months. ... See full document

... original protocol [3]) included supplement safety and an estimate of effect size and 95% confidence intervals for inflammatory biomarkers, pul- monary function (spirometry, impulse oscillometry (IOS), gas transfer ... See full document

... combination therapy in the treatment of Staphylococcus aureus infections remains an area of active research ...beta-lactam therapy for the treatment of methicillin-resistant ...ongoing randomized ... See full document

... pilot study with a sample size of 19 (9 in the active acupuncture arm and 10 in the sham acupuncture ...this study, the pooled SD of TNSS was ...pilot study was ...pilot study showed the ... See full document

... in allergic conditions and recent developments in the field of herbal remedies (11) we performed a double-blind randomized control study to evaluate the effects of ZM syrup on subjects with ... See full document

... A trial of acupuncture for shoulder pain concluded that acupuncture is an effective long-term treatment for patients with shoulder pain (from soft- tissue lesions) in a primary care setting ... See full document

... The primary outcome measure will be the time to re- lapse or recurrence meeting DSM-IV criteria for a major depressive episode on the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-VI (SCID-I). Occurrence of relapse or recur- ... See full document