NCT02924831

High-tech Acupuncture for Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

High-tech Acupuncture for Treatment of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome - A Sino-Austrian Cooperation Randomized Controlled Trial(RCT) on Heart Rate Variability

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 210 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Hubei Provincial Collaborative Innovation Center of Preventive Treatment by Acupuncture and Moxibust · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

1. To study the relationship between Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and heart rate (HR) and its variability (HRV). 2. To compare the curative effects and the HR/HRV indices between applicationa of different acupoints as well as different treatments (acupuncture and moxibustion).

Conditions

• Chronic Fatigue Syndrome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Acupuncture	Stimulating acupoints by using stainless steel needles with manual manipulation.
OTHER	moxibustion	Stimulating acupoints by using burned moxa
OTHER	placebo	Stimulating acupoints by using stainless steel needles without manual manipulation.

Timeline

• Start date: 2016-11-01
• Primary completion: 2018-05-01
• Completion: 2018-07-01
• First posted: 2016-10-05
• Last updated: 2016-10-05

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China