Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT03767140
Efficacy of Acupuncture in Exercise Tolerance in Patients With COPD
Efficacy of Acupuncture in Exercise Tolerance in Patients With COPD Controlled, Randomized, Double Blind Study
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 29 (actual)
- Sponsor
- Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas Abel Salazar · Academic / Other
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 18 Years – 90 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
Summary
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) is nowadays the 4th cause of death in the world and it´s expected to become the 3rd cause of death in 2020 and the majority cause of morbidity. Besides that, in Portugal COPD patients become more dependents each day. Acupuncture as a reflex therapy it´s carried out through a Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) diagnose that will allowed to identify the acupoints. The investigators are interested in to assess acupuncture efficacy on physical exercise tolerance in COPD patients.An experimental, controlled, randomized, double blind study was done. Patients were recruited according TCM diagnose to optimize potential therapeutic effects.
Conditions
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| PROCEDURE | acupuncture | The patients were randomized in two groups, one verum acupuncture, submitted to real acupuncture treatment, and the other sham acupuncture, treated with false acupuncture |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2018-06-27
- Primary completion
- 2018-09-25
- Completion
- 2018-11-28
- First posted
- 2018-12-06
- Last updated
- 2018-12-07
Locations
1 site across 1 country: Portugal
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT03767140. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.