NCT04143022

Evaluation of the Effects of Acupuncture Press Needle in Mild to Moderate Obstructive Sleep Apnea Patients

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 40 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Chang Gung Memorial Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years – 80 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The aim of this study is to investigate the effects of acupuncture press needle in mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnea patients.

Detailed description

Obstructive sleep apnea(OSA) is characterized by multiple episodes of upper airway collapse during sleep and considered as a major health issue worldwide due to comorbidity with obesity, hypertension, diabetes and more advanced cardiovascular diseases. The noisy sounds of snoring caused by OSA bother bed partner sleepless and lead to long-term health problems. Most patients do not tolerate nasal continuous positive airway pressure device, which is the gold standard treatment of OSA. Press needle is one kind of acupuncture which possesses more safety and convenient, few complications and prolonged period of treatment time compared to conventional acupuncture. To date, there is no study to evaluate the effects of press needle in treating OSA. The investigators hypothesize that press needle is effective with high acceptability among OSA patients.

Conditions

• Apnea, Obstructive Sleep
• Snoring

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	acupuncture press needle	Press needle will be applied to acupoints at Jin's 3-tongue point ( EX-HN21 and the two extra channel points, 0.8 individual cun lateral to both sides of EX-HN21) and EX-HN25 in group A and at EX-CA1, EX-CA5 and EX-CA6 in group B. Each subject will start first course and receive the treatment 2 times a week for 4 weeks (8 times in total). Then, it takes 2-week washout period and make group A and group B crossover. Second course begins after 2-week washout period with the same treatment times as the first course.

Timeline

• Start date: 2019-10-23
• Primary completion: 2020-08-31
• Completion: 2020-12-22
• First posted: 2019-10-29
• Last updated: 2019-10-29

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan