Battlefield Acupuncture for Acute/Subacute Back Pain in the Emergency Department

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2016-12-12
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The randomized controlled study aims was to investigate the pain control of Battle Field Acupuncture as Primary or Adjunctive Treatment in Back Pain (Acute Musculoskeletal pain) in the (acute pain setting) Emergency Department vs stand of care pain medications.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Details

• Lead Sponsor: San Antonio Military Medical Center
• Treatments: Acetaminophen; Diazepam; Diclofenac; Hydrocodone; Ketorolac; Ketorolac Tromethamine

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Individuals to be enrolled the study will be:

• Emergency Room patient

• Able to provide informed consent (of sound mind)

• acute defined as less than 3 months, or acute on chronic musculoskeletal pain

• Individuals will be between 18-55 years of age and include Active Duty (AD) service members and beneficiaries

• Pain at prescreening will be greater than or equal to 3 based on the Visual Analogue Scale (VAS).

• Non-pathological acute back pain

Exclusion Criteria:

• The individuals eligible for the study will be in good health, as defined by the World Health Organization (WHO, 2006). "Health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social wellbeing and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity" (WHO, 2006). Specific exclusion criteria will include,

• Participants presenting with open wound injuries

• temperature >38.0 Celsius

• suspected fractures

• pain associated with diseases (flank/kidney pain)

• concern for other than back pain (pyelonephritis, kidney stones, pathologic signs and symptoms)

• bowel/bladder incontinence or retention

• foot drop

• known current/history of cancer

• known bleeding disorders

• active infection at the needled insertion site

• If member is found to be pregnant at any time during screening process they will be removed from consideration before any treatment options are offered.