NCT06587711

Application of Cheek Acupuncture in Vaginal Tightening Surgery

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 60 (estimated)
• Sponsor: The Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

A large number of studies have shown that acupuncture can reduce perioperative pain in patients. Cheek acupuncture therapy is a new acupuncture treatment, which belongs to the microneedle system, that is, acupuncture at specific acupoint on the face, which can relieve patients' pain. In this study, the efficacy and safety of cheek acupuncture in patients undergoing vaginal tightening surgery was verified by observing the consumption of opioid, intraoperative hemodynamics, dosage of oral remedial analgesics, postoperative quality of recovery, patient satisfaction, incidence of side effects, etc.

Conditions

• Pain Vulva

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	acupuncture treatment	Patients in experimental group received acupuncture at specific acupoint on the face, patients in control group received sham acupuncture at non-acupoint on the face.

Timeline

• Start date: 2024-09-01
• Primary completion: 2025-02-01
• Completion: 2025-02-01
• First posted: 2024-09-19
• Last updated: 2024-09-19

Locations

1 site across 1 country: China