Acupuncture for Post Operative Pain Following Total Knee or Hip Arthroplasty

Overview

Post operative pain (POP) is a major obstacle on the road to healing, despite the increasing interest in postoperative pain management and development of pain control modalities (1). Postoperative pain is still insufficiently treated with more than 50% of patients suffering from moderate to severe pain early after surgery .Pain after orthopedic surgery is considered especially difficult to manage. Approximately half of total knee or hip arthroplasty patients present with extreme pain immediately after surgery. Total knee and hip arthroplasty often results not only in severe perioperative pain and debilitation, but chronic pain, joint stiffness, and functional disability many months or even years following the procedure. Various modalities of treating orthopedic POP exist, but the optimal management of postoperative pain remains controversial with no clear consensus of the best method.We suggest that acupuncture can be an effective treatment for post operative pain after total knee or hip arthroplasty.

Study Type

  • Study Type: Interventional
  • Study Design
    • Allocation: Randomized
    • Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
    • Primary Purpose: Treatment
    • Masking: Double (Care Provider, Outcomes Assessor)
  • Study Primary Completion Date: December 20, 2018

Interventions

  • Other: acupuncture
    • acupuncture for post operative pain

Arms, Groups and Cohorts

  • Experimental: acupuncture
  • No Intervention: no acupuncture

Clinical Trial Outcome Measures

Primary Measures

  • average post operative pain during time of hospitalization
    • Time Frame: average pain score during 5 days following operation
    • post operative pain will measured twice daily – morning and afternoon during hospitalization time. patients will be asked to rate thier pain on a visual analog scale ranging from 0- no pain to 10 – severe pain

Participating in This Clinical Trial

Inclusion Criteria

  • signed informed consent, above 18 years of age, about to undergo total knee or hip arthroplasty Exclusion Criteria:

  • Known mental disease, active cancer disease, coagulopathy, Hepatitis B,C.

Gender Eligibility: All

Minimum Age: 18 Years

Maximum Age: 80 Years

Are Healthy Volunteers Accepted: No

Investigator Details

  • Lead Sponsor
    • Ziv Hospital
  • Provider of Information About this Clinical Study
    • Sponsor

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