NCT03829137

The Clinical Effects of Laser Acupuncture Therapy for OAB Women.

The Clinical Effects of Laser Acupuncture Therapy for OAB Women: a Randomized Controlled Trial.

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 30 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Chang Gung Memorial Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Overactive bladder (OAB) is a syndrome causes urgency, with or without urgent incontinence, daytime frequency and nocturia. Urgency incontinence is more common in older women and may be associated with comorbid conditions that occur with age. The standard OAB medical treatments may induced several intolerable side effects including dry mouth, constipation, and so on, therefore alternative therapies are often considered. Acupuncture had been proved effective to OAB treatment, however, this invasive procedure also cause pain and hematoma. Laser acupuncture has minimal side effects comparing to conventional acupuncture, but its effects against OAB had never been examined. Experiments with laser acupuncture are expected to be another way to relieve OAB symptoms.

Detailed description

The subjects are treated with 7 acupoints which are localized according to WHO standardized acupressure point location guideline. The patients lay in the supine position before treatment and the gallium aluminum arsenide LaserPan (RJ-Laser, Reimers \& Janssen GmbH, Waldkirch, Germany) will be applied to each selected acupoints mentioned above. The experimental group (verum laser acupuncture) and control group (sham laser acupuncture) will receive laser acupuncture 3 times per week for 3 weeks, total of 9 sessions, based on clinical experience (Treatment could be extended if necessary). The basic patient data will be recorded at baseline and adverse effect will also be recorded during the clinical trial.

Conditions

• Overactive Bladder

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Verum laser acupuncture	The patients lay in the supine position before treatment and the gallium aluminum arsenide LaserPan (RJ-Laser, Reimers \& Janssen GmbH, Waldkirch, Germany) will be applied to each selected acupoints for 3 weeks, total of 9 sessions.
DEVICE	Sham laser acupuncture	The acupuncture points and procedure of the control group are identical to the experimental group but there are no laser beam energy.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-01-01
• Primary completion: 2022-04-05
• Completion: 2022-04-05
• First posted: 2019-02-04
• Last updated: 2019-02-04

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan