Randomized Controlled Trial of Acupuncture to Treat Bell's Palsy According to Different Stages

NCT ID: NCT00608660

Last Updated: 2009-09-17

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

900 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2006-10-31

Study Completion Date

2009-09-30

Brief Summary

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The purpose of this trial will certify the efficacy of using staging acupuncture and moxibustion to treat Bell's Palsy

Detailed Description

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The result of this trial (available in 2009) aims to testify the efficacy of using staging acupuncture and moxibustion to treat Bell's Palsy, and to approach a best acupuncture treatment among these five different methods for treating Bell's Palsy

Conditions

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Bell's Palsy

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

SINGLE

Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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A

staging acupuncture for treating Bell's Palsy

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

acupuncture

Intervention Type OTHER

staging acupuncture

B

staging acupuncture and moxibustion for treating Bell's Palsy

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

acupuncture and moxibustion

Intervention Type OTHER

staging acupuncture and moxibustion

C

staging electroacupuncture for treating Bell's Palsy

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

electroacupuncture

Intervention Type OTHER

staging electroacupuncture

D

staging acupuncture along Yangming musculature for treating Bell's Palsy

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

acupuncture along yangming tendons

Intervention Type OTHER

staging acupuncture along Yangming musculature

E

non-staging acupuncture for treating Bell's Palsy

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

acupuncture

Intervention Type OTHER

non-staging acupuncture

Interventions

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acupuncture

staging acupuncture

Intervention Type OTHER

acupuncture and moxibustion

staging acupuncture and moxibustion

Intervention Type OTHER

electroacupuncture

staging electroacupuncture

Intervention Type OTHER

acupuncture along yangming tendons

staging acupuncture along Yangming musculature

Intervention Type OTHER

acupuncture

non-staging acupuncture

Intervention Type OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* patients who meet the diagnosis, stages, location criteria
* the first time to onset the disease
* between 1 and 70 days with the onset time of facial palsy
* on one side of the face paralysis
* between 15 and 70 years old with the onset age of facial palsy
* willing to finish the whole observation period
* with written consent form signed by themselves.

Exclusion Criteria

* facial palsy caused by other disease, such as infectivity multiple radiculitis, tumor which offend temporal bone, cerebral trauma
* facial palsy combine diabetes, the severe disease of heart vessel, cerebral vessel, liver, kidney, lung, and psychosis
* patient with Hunt's syndrome
* patient with facial spasm
* pregnant women or women in lactation
* patients are participating other clinical research
Minimum Eligible Age

15 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

70 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Acupuncture & Tuina college of chengdu univeristy of TCM

Principal Investigators

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Ying Li, Dr.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Acupuncture&Moxibustion college of chengdu TCM

Locations

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Chengdu university of TCM

Chengdu, Sichuan, China

Site Status

Countries

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China

References

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Zhao L, Zhang FW, Li Y, Wu X, Zheng H, Cheng LH, Liang FR. Adverse events associated with acupuncture: three multicentre randomized controlled trials of 1968 cases in China. Trials. 2011 Mar 24;12:87. doi: 10.1186/1745-6215-12-87.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 21435214 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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2006BAI12B03

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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