NCT03291912

Chuna Manual Therapy for Cervicogenic Dizziness

Therapeutic Effect of Adjuvant Chuna Manual Therapy (CMT) in Subjects With Cervicogenic Dizziness: a Prospective, Pragmatic, Assessor-blind, Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kyunghee University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

This is a prospective, pragmatic, assessor-blind, randomized controlled trial to explore the effectiveness of an adjuvant Chuna manual therapy (CMT) for cervicogenic dizziness of Dizziness Handicap Inventory (DHI) ≥ 16 at baseline. Participants will be randomized and allocated to either CMT combined with usual care (UC) group or UC group with 1:1 ratio. They will receive 12 sessions of CMT or UC treatment for 6 weeks. UC consists of physical therapy and patients education.

Conditions

• Cervicogenic Dizziness

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Chuna Manual Therapy	* Unique manual therapy in traditional Korean medicine * Mandatory techniques for neck part and selective techniques for other part (if necessary) * Selective techniques depends on a patient's condition (judged by traditional Korean medicine doctor)
PROCEDURE	Usual care	1. Physical therapy based on traditional Korean medicine theory * Electrical stimulation: either Meridian muscle interferential current electricity or Meridian transcutaneous electricity * Heat stimulation: either Hot pack or Infrared lamp 2. Patient education * Physical and pathological explanation of cervicogenic dizziness * Cause and risk factors of cervicogenic dizziness * Functions of muscles related to cervicogenic dizziness * Home exercising to self-manage cervicogenic dizziness

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-03-01
• Primary completion: 2019-12-31
• Completion: 2019-12-31
• First posted: 2017-09-25
• Last updated: 2018-01-03

Locations

2 sites across 1 country: South Korea