ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2021
A Comparative Study of the Effectiveness of Pharmacopuncture Therapy for Chronic Neck Pain: A Pragmatic, Randomized, Controlled Trial.
Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04035018 (A Study on the Effectiveness of Pharmacopuncture for Chronic Neck Pain), which is not on this map. Cited by 9 papers.
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A Study on the Effectiveness of Pharmacopuncture for Chronic Neck Pain: A Protocol for a Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed.
- Scalp Acupuncture Combined with Mouse Nerve Growth Factor Acupoint Injection for Post-stroke Cognitive Impairment.Journal of molecular neuroscience : MN · 2026Trial
- Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial of Pharmacopuncture Therapy for Cervical Disc Herniation: A Pilot Study.Journal of pain research · 2025Trial
- An economic evaluation of pharmacopuncture versus usual care for chronic neck pain: a pragmatic randomized controlled trial.BMC health services research · 2023Trial
- A cost-utility analysis of pharmacopuncture versus physiotherapy for chronic low back pain: A multicenter, pragmatic randomized controlled trial.Integrative medicine research · 2025Article
- Minimal Clinically Important Difference in Patients with Acute Neck Pain Undergoing Conservative Treatment with Korean Medicine.Journal of pain research · 2025Article
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- Use of Herbal Decoction and Pharmacopuncture in Individuals with Chronic Disease: findings from a nationally representative panel.Journal of pharmacopuncture · 2024Article
- Effect of Korean Medicine Treatment on Patients with Postherpetic Neuralgia: A Retrospective Chart Review.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Knowledge Mapping of International Research on Acupuncture for Chronic Pain: A Bibliometric Analysis.Journal of pain research · 2022Review
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Abstract
backgroundThis two-arm, parallel, pragmatic, multicenter, clinical randomized, controlled trial with a 12-week follow-up period aimed to compare the effectiveness of pharmacopuncture therapy and physical therapy strategies for chronic neck pain.
methodsEight sessions of pharmacopuncture therapy or physical therapy were administered within 2 weeks. The primary outcome was the visual analogue scale (VAS) score for neck pain. The secondary outcomes were the scores of the Northwick Park questionnaire (NPQ), VAS score for radiating arm pain, numeric rating scale (NRS) for neck and arm bothersomeness, neck disability index (NDI), patient global impression of change (PGIC), 12-item short form health survey (SF-12), and EuroQoL 5-dimension 5-level (EQ-5D-5L) instrument. The protocol was registered with Clinicaltrials.gov (NCT04035018) and CRIS (KCT0004243).
resultsWe randomly allocated 101 participants with chronic neck pain to the pharmacopuncture therapy (
conclusionCompared with physical therapy, pharmacopuncture therapy had superior effects on the pain and functional recovery of patients with chronic neck pain.
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