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The purpose of this study is to reveal the effectiveness and safety of knee herbal acupuncture for patients with acute knee joint pain caused by a traffic accident. It is a practical clinical study to confirm the comparative effectiveness by comparing the strategy of treating knee herbal acupuncture in parallel with the strategy of treating it with integrated oriental medicine treatment, which is an existing treatment method.
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| Label | Type | Description | Intervention Names |
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| Knee Pharmacoacupuncture group | Experimental | 20 patients in the Knee Pharmacoacupuncture group |
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| Oriental medicine integrated treatment group | Active Comparator | 20 patients in the Oriental medicine integrated treatment group |
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| Name | Type | Description | Arm Group Labels | Other Names |
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| Knee Pharmacoacupuncture | Procedure | Physician choose the adequate type and dose of pharmacoacupuncture and needle type |
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| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Knee pain numeric rating scale (NRS) | The intensity of knee pain will be assessed using the NRS. In the NRS, participants choose a number from 0 to 10 that best describes participant's comfort (0 being no pain and 10 being the most comfortable they can imagine). | through admission completion, an average of 1week, 2 weeks and 4 weeks after admission date |
| Measure | Description | Time Frame |
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| Range of motion (ROM) | Passive ROM will be measured before and after treatment to evaluate changes before and after treatment. Passive ROM is evaluated by measuring the angle between the subject's lower extremity and an imaginary line drawn vertically from the ground at the maximum range of motion of the subject's knee joint in flexion, extension, left flexion, and right flexion. If measurement is not possible due to pain, it will be recorded as UC. |
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| Name | Role | Phone | Extension | |
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| Sunah Kim KMD | Contact | 82-42-1577-0007 | tnsdk2648@jaseng.org | |
| Eunyul Han KMD | Contact | 82-010-8343-0929 | yul123@jaseng.org |
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| Facility | Status | City | State | ZIP | Country | Contacts |
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| Daejeon Jaseng Hospital of Korean Medicine | Recruiting | Daejeon | South Korea |
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| Oriental medicine integrated treatment | Procedure | Physician choose the integrated oriental medicine treatment other than herbal acupuncture. |
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| Enrollment date, Discharge date(On average, 1 week after admission) |
| Korean Western Ontario & McMaster, K-WOMAC | K-WOMAC is a 24-item questionnaire developed to evaluate the degree of disability related to knee pain. Each question is divided into 5 levels and consists of 5 questions in the pain evaluation section, 2 questions in the stiffness evaluation section, and 17 questions in the functional disability evaluation section. The higher the score, the more severe the disability. | Enrollment date, Discharge date(On average, 1 week after admission), 2 and 4 weeks after admission date |
| EuroQol-5 Dimension (EQ-5D-5L) | EQ-5D-5L is a method of evaluating health status from various aspects and then indirectly calculating the quality weight of a specific health status using pre-assigned preference scores for each functional level. It is the most widely used among several indirect measurement methods. there is. The EQ-5D-5L consists of 5 questions. Each question includes mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, and anxiety/depression ( Ask about the level of anxiety/depression, etc. Weights are assigned according to the level of each item, and the preference score calculation equation is presented based on these weights and constants. | Enrollment date, Discharge date(On average, 1 week after admission), 2 and 4 weeks after admission date |
| Patient Global Impression of Change (PGIC) | This is a method that allows participants to subjectively evaluate the degree of improvement on a 7-level scale: 1, very much improved; 2, much improved; 3, minimally improved; 4, no change; 5, minimally worse; 6, much worse; or 7, very much worse. | Discharge date(On average, 1 week after admission), 2 and 4 weeks after admission date |