NCT03625050

Efficacy and Safety of Chuna Manual Treatment as an Adjunctive Therapy After Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Study Protocol for a Single-Center, Randomized, Assessor Blind, Parallel-Group Clinical Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 22 (actual)
• Sponsor: Gachon University Gil Oriental Medical Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Evaluate the efficacy and safety of Chuna treatment as an adjunctive therapy in patients with moderate pain following total knee replacement.

Conditions

• Total Knee Replacement
• Manipulation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Chuna + Usual care(Celecoxib and esomeprazole)	Chuna therapy (CT), 2 sessions/week, 4 weeks (8 sessions in total) Usual care therapy (UC, Celecoxib 200mg, qd and esomeprazole 20mg, qd), 4 weeks Usual care consists of physical therapy, CP based medications and patients education. Physical therapy consists of meridian muscle interferential current electricity (or meridian transcutaneous electricity) and hot pack (or infrared lamp). CT and UC group will receive the same UC regimen.
DRUG	Usual care(Celecoxib and esomeprazole)	Usual care therapy (UC, Celecoxib 200mg, qd and esomeprazole 20mg, qd), 4 weeks Usual care consists of physical therapy, CP based medications and patients education. Physical therapy consists of meridian muscle interferential current electricity (or meridian transcutaneous electricity) and hot pack (or infrared lamp).

Timeline

• Start date: 2018-11-01
• Primary completion: 2020-12-30
• Completion: 2021-05-31
• First posted: 2018-08-10
• Last updated: 2021-07-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: South Korea