Comparative Effectiveness and Cost-effectiveness of Chuna Manual Therapy for Chronic Neck Pain

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2019-06-28
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

A multi-center randomized controlled trial assessing the comparative effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of Chuna manual therapy for chronic neck pain

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Jaseng Medical Foundation
• Collaborators: Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong; Michigan State University

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Chronic neck pain patients (with pain duration of 3 months or longer)

• Patients with numeric rating scale (NRS) of radicular pain ≤ neck pain in neck pain patients with or without radiculopathy

• Patients with NRS of neck pain ≥5 during the 3 days

• Patients who have agreed to trial participation and provided written informed consent

Exclusion Criteria:

• Patients diagnosed with serious pathology(s) which may cause neck pain (e.g. spinal metastasis of tumor(s), acute fracture, spinal dislocation)

• Patients with history of neck surgery

• Patients with other chronic disease(s) which may interfere with treatment effect, safety, or interpretation of outcomes (e.g. chronic renal failure, vertebral artery complications, rheumatoid arthritis, Down syndrome)

• Patients with progressive neurologic deficit or severe neurologic symptoms such as spinal cord injury

• Patients with severe mental illness

• Patients currently taking steroids, immunosuppressants, medicine for mental illness or other medication(s) that may interfere with study results

• Patients who have received Chuna manual therapy or physical therapy, medicine such as nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), or treatment(s) that may influence pain within the past week

• Pregnant patients or patients with plans of pregnancy

• Patients participating in other clinical studies or otherwise deemed unsuitable by the researchers