Trial reportRevista latino-americana de enfermagem2018
Action of ear acupuncture in people with chronic pain in the spinal column: a randomized clinical trial1.
Trial report in Revista latino-americana de enfermagem, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06169098 (Changes in Skin Surface Temperature of the Lumbar Region During Auricular Acupressure at Kidney Point on Healthy Volunteers), which is not on this map. Cited by 4 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Changes in Skin Surface Temperature of the Lumbar Region During Auricular Acupressure at Kidney Point on Healthy Volunteers
Who cites it
4 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.
- Acupuncture in adults with Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy: a systematic review.Revista latino-americana de enfermagem · 2019Pooled it
- Laser auriculotherapy for the treatment of pain: a scoping review.Lasers in medical science · 2026Article
- Effects of ear acupuncture combined with cupping therapy on severity and threshold of chronic back pain and physical disability: A randomized clinical trial.Journal of traditional and complementary medicine · 2022Article
- Auriculotherapy to control chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting in patients with cancer: protocol of a systematic review.Systematic reviews · 2019Article
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
objectivesto assess the action of ear acupuncture on disability and tissue temperature in people with chronic pain in the spinal column.
methoda clinical trial with a sample of 110 people, randomized into three groups: Treatment, Placebo and Control. The assessment instruments were the Rolland Morris Disability Questionnaire (RMDQ) and a thermographic camera, administered before the first treatment session, one week after and 15 days after (follow-up) the fifth session of ear acupuncture. In the analysis of the data, the Kruskal Wallis, Student-Newman Keuls and Wilcoxon tests were applied.
resultsthere was a significant reduction in disability in the Treatment and Placebo groups between the initial and final assessments (p<0.05) and between the initial assessments and follow-up (p<0.05). In the final assessment, the Treatment group presented improvement of disability when compared with the Placebo and Control groups (p<0.05). There was an increase in mean tissue temperature of the dorsal region between the initial and follow-up assessments in Treatment and Control groups (p<0.05), and between the final assessments and follow-up in the Treatment and Placebo groups (p<0.05).
conclusionear acupuncture was efficacious in reducing disability and increasing tissue temperature in people with chronic pain in the spinal column. Brazilian Register of Clinical Trials (RBR-5X69X2).
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