Acupuncture for Post Operative Pain Following Total Knee or Hip Arthroplasty

NCT ID: NCT03415204

Last Updated: 2021-02-04

Basic Information

• Recruitment Status: COMPLETED
• Clinical Phase: NA
• Total Enrollment: 100 participants
• Study Classification: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Start Date: 2017-12-20
• Study Completion Date: 2018-12-20

Brief Summary

Post operative pain (POP) is a major obstacle on the road to healing, despite the increasing interest in postoperative pain management and development of pain control modalities (1). Postoperative pain is still insufficiently treated with more than 50% of patients suffering from moderate to severe pain early after surgery .Pain after orthopedic surgery is considered especially difficult to manage. Approximately half of total knee or hip arthroplasty patients present with extreme pain immediately after surgery. Total knee and hip arthroplasty often results not only in severe perioperative pain and debilitation, but chronic pain, joint stiffness, and functional disability many months or even years following the procedure. Various modalities of treating orthopedic POP exist, but the optimal management of postoperative pain remains controversial with no clear consensus of the best method.We suggest that acupuncture can be an effective treatment for post operative pain after total knee or hip arthroplasty.

Conditions

Arthroplasty Complications

Study Design

• Allocation Method: RANDOMIZED
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Primary Study Purpose: TREATMENT
• Blinding Strategy: DOUBLE

Study Groups

acupuncture

Group Type: EXPERIMENTAL

acupuncture

Intervention Type: OTHER

acupuncture for post operative pain

no acupuncture

Group Type: NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

acupuncture

acupuncture for post operative pain

Intervention Type: OTHER

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion Criteria

• signed informed consent, above 18 years of age, about to undergo total knee or hip arthroplasty

Exclusion Criteria

• Known mental disease, active cancer disease, coagulopathy, Hepatitis B,C.

• Minimum Eligible Age: 18 Years
• Maximum Eligible Age: 80 Years
• Eligible Sex: ALL
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No

Sponsors

Ziv Hospital

OTHER_GOV

Sponsor Role: lead

Responsible Party

Responsibility Role: SPONSOR

Locations

Ziv Medical Center

Safed, , Israel

Countries

Israel

References

Rubin L, Avraham Y, Sharabi-Nov A, Shebly T, Ben Natan M, Rothem DE. Acupuncture Effect on Analgesic Consumption and Cortisol Levels Following Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Randomized Controlled Trial. Med Acupunct. 2023 Oct 1;35(5):230-235. doi: 10.1089/acu.2023.0024. Epub 2023 Oct 17.

Reference Type: DERIVED

PMID: 37920858 (View on PubMed)

Other Identifiers

0104-17-ZIV

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id