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Trial reportAcupuncture in medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society2014

Acupuncture with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) versus acupuncture or NSAIDs alone for the treatment of chronic neck pain: an assessor-blinded randomised controlled pilot study.

Jae-Heung Cho, Dong-Hyun Nam, Ki-Tack Kim, Jun-Hwan Lee

Registry-linked trialOpen access · hybridAbstract readRandomized Controlled Trial
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In one paragraph

Trial report in Acupuncture in medicine : journal of the British Medical Acupuncture Society, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03859011 (Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Acupuncture for Chronic Neck Pain), which is not on this map. Cited by 10 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
10citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
2.7field-weighted citation impact, top 9% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT03859011 nacompletednot on this mapstarted 2022, after this paper: background citation

Effectiveness and Cost-Effectiveness of Acupuncture for Chronic Neck Pain: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

TypeinterventionalSponsor5 Element InstituteRan2022 to 2025Enrolled75ConditionsNeck Pain, PosteriorArmsAcupuncture
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Pooled it
  2. WITHDRAWN: Acupuncture for neck disorders.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2016
    Pooled it
  3. Review
  4. Article
  5. Effective Oriental Magic for Analgesia: Acupuncture.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2022
    Review
  6. Article
  7. Article
  8. Effect of acupuncture on pain and quality of life in canine neurological and musculoskeletal diseases.The Canadian veterinary journal = La revue veterinaire canadienne · 2017
    Article
  9. National clinical guidelines for non-surgical treatment of patients with recent onset neck pain or cervical radiculopathy.European spine journal : official publication of the European Spine Society, the European Spinal Deformity Society, and the European Section of the Cervical Spine Research Society · 2017
    Review
  10. Acupotomy Therapy for Chronic Nonspecific Neck Pain: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Evidence-based complementary and alternative medicine : eCAM · 2017
    Review
4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jae-Heung ChoDepartment of Korean Rehabilitation Medicine, Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong, Seoul, Korea.
Dong-Hyun Nam
Ki-Tack Kim
Jun-Hwan Lee
Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong · KR

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveTo investigate the feasibility and sample size required for a full-scale randomised controlled trial of the effectiveness of acupuncture with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) for chronic neck pain compared with acupuncture or NSAID treatment alone.

methodsA total of 45 patients with chronic neck pain participated in the study. For 3 weeks the acupuncture with NSAIDs treatment group took NSAIDs (zaltoprofen, 80 mg) daily while receiving acupuncture treatment three times a week. The acupuncture treatment group received treatment three times a week and the NSAID treatment group took NSAIDs daily. The primary outcomes were to determine the feasibility and to calculate the sample size. As secondary outcomes, pain intensity and pain-related symptoms for chronic neck pain were measured.

resultsWith regard to enrolment and dropout rates, 88.2% of patients consented to be recruited to the trial and 15.6% of participants were lost to follow-up. The sample size for a full-scale trial was estimated to be 120 patients. Although preliminary, there was a significant change in the visual analogue scale (VAS) for neck pain intensity between the baseline measurement and each point of assessment in all groups. However, there was no difference in VAS scores between the three groups.

conclusionsThis pilot study has provided the feasibility and sample size for a full-scale trial of acupuncture with NSAIDs for chronic neck pain compared with acupuncture or NSAID treatment alone. Further research is needed to validate the effects of acupuncture with NSAIDs.

Indexed as

Acupuncture TherapyAdultAnti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-SteroidalChronic PainCombined Modality TherapyFemaleHumansMaleMiddle AgedNeck PainTreatment OutcomeAnti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-SteroidalACUPUNCTURECOMPLEMENTARY MEDICINEPAIN MANAGEMENT

Identifiers

PMID24171895
PMCPMC3932742
OpenAlexW2163690486

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