Acupuncture for Post Operative Pain Following Total Knee or Hip Arthroplasty

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 Overview

• Status: Completed
• Conditions: Arthroplasty Complications
• Intervention / Treatment: Other: acupuncture

• Study Type: Interventional
• Enrollment (Actual): 100
• Phase: Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

Study Locations

• Israel
  • Safed, Israel
    • Ziv Medical Center

Participation Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

• Ages Eligible for Study: 18 years to 80 years (Adult, Older Adult)
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers: No
• Genders Eligible for Study: All

Description

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.

Study Plan

How is the study designed?

Design Details

• Primary Purpose: Treatment
• Allocation: Randomized
• Interventional Model: Parallel Assignment
• Masking: Double

Number of Arms

2

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm	Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: acupuncture	Other: acupuncture; acupuncture for post operative pain
No Intervention: no acupuncture

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure	Measure Description	Time Frame
average post operative pain during time of hospitalization	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	average pain score during 5 days following operation

Collaborators and Investigators

• Sponsor: Ziv Hospital

Study record dates

Study Major Dates

• Study Start (Actual): December 20, 2017
• Primary Completion (Actual): December 20, 2018
• Study Completion (Actual): December 20, 2018

Study Registration Dates

• First Submitted: January 10, 2018
• First Submitted That Met QC Criteria: January 29, 2018
• First Posted (Actual): January 30, 2018

Study Record Updates

• Last Update Posted (Actual): February 4, 2021
• Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria: February 3, 2021
• Last Verified: January 1, 2018

More Information

Terms related to this study

• Additional Relevant MeSH Terms: Pathologic Processes; Postoperative Complications; Pain; Neurologic Manifestations; Pain, Postoperative
• Other Study ID Numbers: 0104-17-ZIV

Drug and device information, study documents

• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product: No
• Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product: No
• product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.: No