NCT02819336

Effectiveness and Safety of Electroacupuncture on Poststroke Urinary Incontinence

Effectiveness and Safety of Electroacupuncture on Poststroke Urinary Incontinence: a Pilot Multicentered, Randomized, Parallel, Sham-controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 56 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kyunghee University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 19 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This pilot protocol is aimed to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of electroacupuncture therapy for the post-stroke patients with urinary incontinence.

Conditions

• Urinary Incontinence
• Stroke, Complication

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Electroacupuncture (EA)	The EA group will receive the verum therapies using the following procedures. 1. Let the patient lie down on lateral decubitus. 2. The practitioners install the same guide-tubes as Park sham needle on CV2, CV3, CV4, CV6 and bilateral points of SP11 and SP6. 3. The verum acupunctures are inserted on each acupoint inside the installed guide-tube. (stainless steel, 0.25 mm in diameter and 4.0 mm in length, Dong Bang Acupuncture Inc., Republic of Korea) 4. After de qi response is elicited, the electrical stimulation is presented for 20 minutes by middle frequency (30 Hz). (STN-111, Stratek, Republic of Korea) 5. The practitioner should have at least 1-year clinical experiences. The procedure will be repeated 10 times (once a session) within 21 days.
DEVICE	Sham electroacupuncture	1. Let the patient lie down on lateral decubitus. 2. The practitioners install the same guide-tubes as Park sham needle on CV2, CV3, CV4, and CV6 unilaterally \& SP11 and SP6 bilaterally. 3. The non-penetrating sham acupunctures are implemented on each acupoint inside the installed guide-tube. 4. The electrical stimulation is presented for 20 minutes by middle frequency (30 Hz), (STN-111, Stratek, Republic of Korea) even though the electrical stimulation is not delivered through the skin because the needles are not penetrated through the skin. 5. The practitioner should have at least 1-year clinical experiences. The procedure will be repeated 10 times (once a session) within 21 days.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-06-01
• Primary completion: 2017-04-01
• Completion: 2017-06-01
• First posted: 2016-06-30
• Last updated: 2017-06-27

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: South Korea