The Effect of East-West Collaborative Medicine on Chronic Cervical Pain

Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Effect of East-West Collaborative Medicine on Chronic Cervical Pain: a Pilot Study

The purpose of this study is to assess the effect of East-West collaborative medicine on chronic cervical pain.

Design: This is a randomized, controlled study.

Participants: 45 participants with chronic cervical pain are recruited and randomly assigned to three groups.

Intervention: Over an three-week period, one group(n=15) gets western medicine treatment(drug medication); another group(n=15) gets oriental medicine treatment(individualized needling 2-3 times a week); the other group(n=15) gets western medicine plus oriental medicine treatment for 3 weeks

Inclusion Criteria:

- presence of Chronic neck pain

Exclusion Criteria:

• Cancer
• Spinal infection
• ankylosing spondylosis
• myelopathy
• moderate hypertension or more
• serious mental disease
• other skeletomuscular disease
• history of operation or acupuncture treatment about spinal disease