Acupuncture for Chronic Shoulder Pain in Persons With Spinal Cord Injury: A Small-Scale Clinical Trial

摘要: Abstract Dyson-Hudson TA, Kadar P, LaFountaine M, Emmons R, Kirshblum SC, Tulsky D, Komaroff E. Acupuncture for chronic shoulder pain in persons with spinal cord injury: a small-scale clinical trial. Objective To determine the efficacy of acupuncture treatment musculoskeletal subjects injury (SCI). Design Randomized, double blind (participants, evaluator), placebo (invasive sham) controlled Setting Clinical research center. Participants Seventeen manual wheelchair-using SCI and pain. Interventions were randomly assigned to receive 10 treatments either or invasive sham (light needling nonacupuncture points). Main Outcome Measure Changes intensity measured using Wheelchair User’s Shoulder Pain Index. Results decreased significantly over time both groups ( P =.005), decreases 66% 43%, respectively. There was no significant difference between 2 =.364). was, however, medium effect size associated treatment. Conclusions appears be an analgesic powerful acupuncture. acupuncture, which suggests that it may superior This observation, along limited power, indicates larger, more definitive randomized trial similar design is warranted.