Official Title: Clinical Research of Comparative Effectiveness of Pharmacopuncture Therapy and Acupuncture Therapy for Chronic Neck Pain A Pragmatic Randomized Strategy Comparative Clinical Trial
Status: NOT_YET_RECRUITING
Status Verified Date: 2024-07
Last Known Status: None
Delayed Posting: No
If Stopped, Why?: Not Stopped
Has Expanded Access: No
If Expanded Access, NCT#: N/A
Has Expanded Access, NCT# Status: N/A
Acronym: None
Brief Summary: A pragmatic clinical study to compare the effectiveness of pharmacopuncture and acupuncture treatment strategies in patients with chronic neck pain
Detailed Description: This study aims to confirm the comparative effectiveness of pharmacopuncture by conducting a pragmatic randomized controlled clinical trial with 128 patients suffering from chronic neck pain The trial will compare patients treated with a pharmacopuncture-based strategy 64 patients to those treated with an acupuncture-based strategy 64 patients As this is a pragmatic clinical trial participants will be randomly assigned to either the pharmacopuncture or acupuncture groups However the specific methods of pharmacopuncture and acupuncture to be used will not be predetermined Instead they will be determined based on the clinical judgment of the traditional Korean medicine doctor according to the patients condition All methods used will be recorded in the CRF Case Report Form