NCT05846958

Efficacy of Laser Acupuncture on Neurophysiological Parameters of Median Nerve in Postpartum Women

Efficacy of Laser Acupuncture on Neurophysiological Parameters of Median Nerve in Postpartum Women: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 25 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

BACKGROUND: Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS), the most common entrapment neuropathy of the upper extremity, is caused by compression of the median nerve as it travels through the carpal tunnel CTs is a very common complication found in pregnancy, which is reported as high as 62% in pregnant females. The functioning of median nerve is compromised in almost all pregnant females especially during the third trimester of pregnancy, the majority may still feel some symptoms up to 3 years after delivery. Many clinicians have used LLLT on acupuncture points, which is called laser acupuncture (LA), to treat many clinical problems, such as musculoskeletal pain, lateral epicondylitis, headaches, etc. In contrast with traditional acupuncture needles, LA is a non-invasive therapy that does not cause tingling/pain during procedures Objective: to determine efficacy of laser acupuncture on electrophysiological parameters of median nerve in postpartum women

Detailed description

Intervention description 1. Experimental Group: Each patient in this group will receive laser acupuncture on PC4 (Ximen), PC6 (Neiguan), PC7 (Daling), PC8 (Laogong), LI4 (Hegu), LI10 (Shousanli), LI11 (Quchi), HT3 (Shaohai), HT7 (Shenmen), LU10 (Yuji) acupoints in addition to wearing night splint. LA will be applied to each acupuncture point for 10 s with at least 4J/points based on the recommended LLLT treatment doses for CTS of the World Association of Laser Therapy. 2. Control Group: Each patient in this group will wear night splint every night for 4 weeks

Conditions

• Neurophysiologic Abnormality

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DEVICE	laser acupuncture	Each patient in experimental group will receive laser acupuncture for 10 s with at least 4J/point for each point.10 minutes, three times per week for 4 weeks (total of 12 sessions) nieght splint for 4 weeks .
DEVICE	night splint	wearing night splint for 4 weeks

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-04-01
• Primary completion: 2023-07-20
• Completion: 2023-07-28
• First posted: 2023-05-06
• Last updated: 2023-05-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt