NCT01259180

Efficacy of Acupuncture on Chronic Pelvic Pain in Women With Endometriosis or Adenomyosis

Efficacy of Acupuncture on Chronic Pelvic Pain in Women With Endometriosis or Adenomyosis : A Preliminary Study

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (estimated)
• Sponsor: East West Neo Medical Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 16 Years – 55 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of ths study is to determine the efficacy of acupuncture on chronic pelvic pain in women with endometriosis or adenomyosis.

Detailed description

Chronic pelvic pain(CPP) is a common disease among women, and its prevalence ranges from 4 to 25 percent. There are various conditions associated with CPP, including gynecologic, urologic and gastointestinal problems. Endometriosis is the most common diagnosis made at the time of gynecological laparoscopy performed to evaluate CPP. Treatments of CPP with endometriosis include medical(analgesics, oral contraceptive pills, gonadotropin releasing hormone(GnRH) agonist, etc.), surgical and combined treatment. Progestins, danazol, estrogen-progestin pills, or GnRH agonists are commonly used as a concurrent treatment along with surgery. However, a systematic review on the comparison of postsurgical hormonal suppression to surgery alone concluded that, while postoperative medical therapy decreased recurrence rates, there was no significant benefit on the outcomes of pain and pregnancy rates. Therefore there is a need for postoperaive medical therapy for pain relief. In this study, the investigators propose a randomized, sham-controlled trial to investigate the efficacy of acupuncture as a pain control for the patients dignosed endometriosis during laparoscopic surgery due to CPP, and have been on 6 month-scheduled GnRH agonist treatment as a postoperative treatment.

Conditions

• Endometriosis
• Adenomyosis
• Pelvic Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	acupuncture treatment	twice a week, 6 weeks, 12sessions penetrating skin with stailess steel acupuncture device(diameter: 0.25-0.3mm,legth: 30-70mm) points: BL 23,BL31,BL32, BL40, BL53, GB30, SP 6 bilaterally plus Ashi. with
PROCEDURE	Sham acupunture	twice a week, 6 weeks, 12 sessions not penetrating skin with dull acupuncture device(Park Sham device :Acuprime Co. Ltd, UK) point: 1\~2inches away from real acupuncture point

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-12-01
• Primary completion: 2011-09-01
• Completion: 2011-09-01
• First posted: 2010-12-14
• Last updated: 2010-12-14

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea