Tong-Luo-Qu-Tong Plaster for KOA: a Randomised, Double-blind, Parallel Positive Control, Multi-center Clinical Trial

NCT ID: NCT03309501

Last Updated: 2017-11-09

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

UNKNOWN

Clinical Phase

PHASE3

Total Enrollment

2000 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2017-09-12

Study Completion Date

2020-09-20

Brief Summary

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Knee osteoarthritis(OA), also known as degenerative arthritis, have affected a lot of people. Patients with severe osteoarthritis frequently develop one or more of the typically following symptoms: joint pain, stiffness, activity with joint friction noise, limited mobility, such as difficulty walking and climbing. Now there are many western medicine treatments including symptom relief and joint cartilage protective agents for OA, but the results have not yet satisfied. TCM treatment of osteoarthritis has remarkable curative effect and unique advantage.Tong-Luo-Qu-Tong Plaster is a common method to treat osteoarthritis of the knee for thousands of years in China. It lacked a large sample randomised, double-blind, parallel positive controlled, multicenter clinical trial, and the clinical evidence of Tong-Luo-Qu-Tong Plaster for Knee Osteoarthritis need to be further completed.

Detailed Description

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A randomised, double-blind, parallel positive controlled, multicenter clinical trial will be conducted to assess the effectiveness and safety of Tong-Luo-Qu-Tong Plaster on patients with knee osteoarthritis. A total of 2000 patients with knee osteoarthritis will be recruited and randomly allocated into experimental group(1500) or control group(500). Each patient will undergo a 2-week treatment with herbal patches for one session per day.The western Ontario and McMaster universities osteoarthritis index (WOMAC) as objective indicators of efficacy is the primary efficacy endpoint of the study.The secondary outcome measures are the changes in TCM syndrome quantitative score, Visual Analog Scale/Score (VAS) score of pain, and the effective time of pain relief of drug from the baseline to 1 week, 2 weeks' follow-up.

Conditions

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Knee Osteoarthritis Chronic Musculoskeletal Disease

Keywords

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Knee osteoarthritis Randomised Double-blind Controlled trial Tong-Luo-Qu-Tong Plaster

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

positive control
Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

QUADRUPLE

Participants Caregivers Investigators Outcome Assessors

Study Groups

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Tong-Luo-Qu-Tong Plaster group

Intervention: Tong-Luo-Qu-Tong Plaster, daily 1 time, conventional treatment lasted for 14 days as two courses

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Tong-Luo-Qu-Tong Plaster

Intervention Type DRUG

for 14 days as two period of treatment, daily 1 time.

Qi-Zheng-Xiao-Tong Plaster group

Intervention: Qi-Zheng-Xiao-Tong Plaster, daily 1 time, conventional treatment lasted for 14 days as two courses

Group Type ACTIVE_COMPARATOR

Qi-Zheng-Xiao-Tong Plaster

Intervention Type DRUG

for 14 days as two period of treatment, daily 1 time

Interventions

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Tong-Luo-Qu-Tong Plaster

for 14 days as two period of treatment, daily 1 time.

Intervention Type DRUG

Qi-Zheng-Xiao-Tong Plaster

for 14 days as two period of treatment, daily 1 time

Intervention Type DRUG

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Participants who have symptomatic knee osteoarthritis, diagnosis of KOA was based on criteria developed by the American College of Rheumatology(ACR) in 1986
* The differentiation standard of the arthralgia syndrome of traditional Chinese medicine(TCM): Referring to the Guidelines on the clinical research of Chinese medicine new drugs(2002)
* The visual analog scale score is no less than 30 mm.
* The patient is older than or equal to 40 years old
* All the patients signed informed consent form before study begins

Exclusion Criteria

* Hormone therapy was used in the first month of screening
* Arthroscopy and intra-articular injection was performed on the knee joint which is going to be evalued during the first three months of screening.
* There is a history of trauma or surgery in the knee joint six months before screening or participants who a history of lessmore than three trauma or surgical procedures in the knees
* Participants who have knee arthroplasty, lumbar spinal stenosis, ankylosing spondylitis, rheumatic arthritis, rheumatoid factor positive(\>40), eallergic constitution and mental disorder will be excluded from the trial
* Patients has severe diseases and complications such as severe diabetes, serious liver and kidney disease, malignant tumors, infectious diseases or complications affecting the knee joints
* Pregnant,lactating women
* Subjects are participating in or have participated in other clinical trials in the first three months.
* Subjects cannot stop using the drugs immediately with a long-term use of other related drugs.
* Combined with severe primary diseases such as hepatic renal functionand hematopoietic system, such as liver function (ALT≧1.5×ULN), and kidney function(AST≧1.5×ULN)
Minimum Eligible Age

40 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

75 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Sponsors

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Shanghai Zhongshan Hospital

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Suzhou Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Luoyang Osteopathy hospital of Henan

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Hubei Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

Liaoning University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

The Second Hospital of Nanjing Medical University

OTHER

Sponsor Role collaborator

The Fourth Central Hospital of Tianjin

UNKNOWN

Sponsor Role collaborator

Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Cui xuejun

associate professor

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Principal Investigators

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Yongjun Wang, Doctor

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Longhua Hospital

Locations

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Longhua Hospital, Shanghai University of TCM

Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China

Site Status RECRUITING

Countries

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China

Central Contacts

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Xuejun Cui, Doctor

Role: CONTACT

Phone: 021-64385700

Email: [email protected]

Facility Contacts

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Xuejun Cui, Dr

Role: primary

References

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Xu BP, Yao M, Tian ZR, Zhou LY, Yang L, Li ZJ, Zhu S, Wang XT, Lan JH, Wang YJ, Cui XJ. Study on efficacy and safety of Tong-luo Qu-tong plaster treatment for knee osteoarthritis: study protocol for a randomized, double-blind, parallel positive controlled, multi-center clinical trial. Trials. 2019 Jun 24;20(1):377. doi: 10.1186/s13063-019-3481-6.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 31234919 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

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TLQT Plaster

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id