Pulse Diagnoses in Patients While Dysmenorrhea is Attacking

NCT ID: NCT03187782

Last Updated: 2017-06-15

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Total Enrollment

15 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2014-02-28

Study Completion Date

2015-02-28

Brief Summary

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The mechanism led to the dysmenorrhea can be understood more clearly and one may have a better idea to treat the disease in the future.

Detailed Description

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Background: Pulse diagnosis of the dysmenorrhea patients before and after acupuncture treatment on the acupoint San Yin Jiao (SP6) were performed so that the mechanism led to the pain can be understood more clearly and one may have a better idea to treat the disease in the future.

Methods: Fifteen women participated in the study voluntarily. They have first to fill in the form of Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) for pain. Then the pulse of the subjects were measured by ANSWatch before and after acupuncture. All meridians can be assessed by analyzing the pulse spectra through Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) of the original pulse data. The significant change of amplitude in certain harmonics which corresponds to a specific meridian after acupuncture treatment can be selected out.

Conditions

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Dysmenorrhea

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

CASE_ONLY

Study Time Perspective

CROSS_SECTIONAL

Interventions

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ANSWatch

Intervention Type DIAGNOSTIC_TEST

Eligibility Criteria

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Exclusion Criteria

* The exclusion criterion was that subjects did not take pain killers in the 12 hours before measurement.
Minimum Eligible Age

12 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

55 Years

Eligible Sex

FEMALE

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Taipei Hospital, Taiwan

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Chen-Kai Liao

Doctor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Chen-Kai Liao

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Taipei Hospital

Other Identifiers

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TH-IRB-0014-0002

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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