NCT01112943

Acupuncture Combined With Pulmonary Rehabilitation: Are There Additional Benefits?

The Impact of Acupuncture as an Adjunct to Pulmonary Rehabilitation

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 44 (actual)
• Sponsor: Beaumont Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The hypothesis of this study was that acupuncture in conjunction with standard care of pulmonary rehabilitation improves outcome measures compared to pulmonary rehabilitation alone.

Detailed description

Pulmonary Rehabilitation is recognized as a pivotal component in International Guidelines for the management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). In patients with COPD, clinical research using acupuncture has reported a significant reduction in the use of medications, decrease breathlessness and increased functional capacity. To our knowledge, this is the first time that these two treatments were combined to compare functional, physiological, biological and emotional/QOL outcomes in this cohort of patients.

Conditions

• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Acupuncture	Acupuncture on predefined points for 20min once a week over seven weeks
OTHER	Pulmonary Rehabilitation	a seven week pulmonary rehabilitation course
OTHER	Pulmonary Rehabilitation	Twice a week for seven weeks. Each session lasting 2 hrs (1hr exercise and 1hr education

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-07-01
• Primary completion: 2008-11-01
• Completion: 2009-01-01
• First posted: 2010-04-29
• Last updated: 2012-08-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Ireland