NCT03659370

Chinese Herbal Fumigation With Acupuncture for the Knee Osteoarthritis

Chinese Herbal Fumigation in Conjunction With Acupuncture for the Knee Osteoarthritis: a Three-armed Randomized Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 45 (actual)
• Sponsor: Taipei City Hospital · Other Government
• Sex: All
• Age: 40 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

To evaluate the effect of fumigation in conjunction with acupuncture for knee osteoarthritis, participators were collected from acupuncture and Chinese traumatology clinic at Linsen Chinese Medicine and Kunming Branch, Taipei City Hospital. Participators were randomized into 3 groups, one for acupuncture with fumigation, one for acupuncture with diluted fumigation, one for acupuncture only.

Detailed description

Patient population. Between June 2015 and November 2017, research subjects were recruited via poster display and clinician referral, to participate in a three-armed, randomized, controlled trial to be conducted in the Traumatology Department Linsen Chinese Medicine and Kunming Branch, Taipei City Hospital.

Conditions

• Osteoarthritis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Fumigation	use Fumigation to increase the improvement of osteoarthritis of knee
OTHER	Acupuncture	Acupuncture

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-01-01
• Primary completion: 2017-12-31
• Completion: 2017-12-31
• First posted: 2018-09-06
• Last updated: 2018-09-10

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan