NCT07084415

Effect of Laser Acupuncture on Neck and Shoulder Pain in Lactating Women

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 44 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 20 Years – 40 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of laser acupuncture on neck and shoulder pain in lactating women.

Detailed description

Breastfeeding was the most common daily living activity that caused neck and shoulder pain to become worse in lactating women, the mother's position is a head-down position to maintain eye contact with the infant, so there are possibilities of breastfeeding-related neck pain . It was revealed that neck and shoulder pain greatly influenced the health of postpartum women; it led to a reduction in the level of quality of life of postpartum women. Acupuncture is a choice for therapeutic intervention of patients with neck and shoulder pain and can be incorporated into rehabilitation. laser acupuncture (LA) uses a low-intensity, non-thermal laser irradiation to stimulate the acupoints. LA may improve pain, disability, and functional levels in musculoskeletal disorders like shoulder and neck pain

Conditions

• Neck Pain

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Postural correction exercise	Each participant will be given cervical thoracic spine correction exercises in the form of thoracic Roll Stretching Exercises, shoulder Bracing (Shoulder Retraction), superman Pose, chin Tuck (Cervical Retraction), five days a week for 4 weeks
DEVICE	Laser acupuncture	A dermatograph pencil (COLOURED®) will be used to draw circles with diameters of 2 cm around the application points. Each point will be stimulated for 30 seconds. The laser will be placed at the specific acupuncture points in shoulder and cervical regions. Each woman in the study group will be treated by laser acupuncture for 7 minutes twice a week for 4 weeks. Acupuncture points of the neck: B10 (Tianzhu), GB 20 (Fengchi), GB 21 (jianjing), and EX-HN15 (jianzhongsgu). Acupuncture points of shoulder: LI 14 (Binao), LI 15 (Jianyu), TE 14 (Jianlio), LI 4 (Hegu),LI16 (Jugu), ST 38 (Tiaoko), SI 10 (Naoshu),LI 11 (Quchi),TE 15 (Tianliao),LU 1 (Zhongfu), Parameter of laser: wavelength: 808\[nm\], Operating mode: Continuous wave, Output power: 100 \[mW\], Power density: 333\[mW/cm\], area irradiated:0.3 cm2, Total time per point: 30\[s\], Angle of application:90 degree.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-07-25
• Primary completion: 2025-10-10
• Completion: 2025-10-25
• First posted: 2025-07-24
• Last updated: 2025-07-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt