Antibiotics Versus Therapeutic Ultrasound for Sinusitis

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2008-10-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

Question: Is the effect of therapeutic ultrasound equally effective to antibiotic for treatment of sinusitis? Design: A randomized clinical trial with concealed allocation, self-assessment by the subjects and intention-to-treat analysis.

• Phase: Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Norwegian University of Science and Technology
• Collaborator: Sør-Trøndelag chapter of the Norwegian Physiotherapist Association
• Treatments: Amoxicillin; Anti-Bacterial Agents; Antibiotics, Antitubercular

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Pain when bending forward, headache, pain in the teeth, purulent nasal secretion, "double worsening" and white blood cell count (WBC).

• Patients eligible for the study had to meet one of the first three criteria (pain when bending forward, headache, pain in the teeth) and all of the other indicators (purulent nasal secretion, double worsening, a left handed displacement of lymphocytes and a right handed displacement of granulocytes on the WBC as indication of bacterial infection).

• Subjects over 15 years of age were included.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Subjects with any kind of antibiotic or allergic treatment within the last three weeks.

• Antibiotic intolerance.

• Pregnant women.