NCT05328401

To Evaluate the Therapeutic Effect of Laser Acupuncture in Patients With Acute or Subacute Post Stroke Shoulder Pain

• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 58 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Chang Gung Memorial Hospital · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Investigators propose a research design protocol to evaluate the efficacy of laser acupuncture in improving shoulder pain and improving shoulder function recovery after stroke.

Detailed description

Shoulder pain after stroke, also known as hemiplegic shoulder pain, is one of the common complications after stroke. The overall incidence rate increases with the time after stroke.The existing treatment methods for shoulder pain after stroke are divided into non-drug and drug. Investigators propose a research design protocol to evaluate the efficacy of laser acupuncture in improving shoulder pain and improving shoulder function recovery after stroke.

Conditions

• Post Stroke Shoulder Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	Verum laser acupuncture	Applied verum laser acupuncture on specific acupoints in patient with post stroke shoulder pain.
DEVICE	Sham laser acupuncture	Applied sham laser acupuncture on specific acupoints in patient with post stroke shoulder pain.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-04-16
• Primary completion: 2028-03-15
• Completion: 2028-03-15
• First posted: 2022-04-14
• Last updated: 2026-03-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Taiwan