Acupuncture in acute herpes zoster pain therapy (ACUZoster) - Design and protocol of a randomised controlled trial

BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages 31-

  Fleckenstein, Johannes ^a   Kramer, Sybille ^a   Hoffrogge, Philipp ^a   Thoma, Sarah ^a   Lang, Philip M ^a   Lehmeyer, Lukas ^a   Schober, Gabriel M ^a   Pfab, Florian ^b,c   Ring, Johannes ^b   Weisenseel, Peter ^d   Schotten, Klaus J ^a   Mansmann, Ulrich ^a   Irnich, Dominik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^d LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIPYRONE; GABAPENTIN; MORPHINE; PARACETAMOL; TRAMADOL; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMINE; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; PLACEBO;

ACUPUNCTURE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG UTILIZATION; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; LOW LEVEL LASER THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROPATHIC PAIN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PAIN ASSESSMENT; POSTHERPETIC NEURALGIA; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SENSORY EVALUATION; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; HOSPITALIZATION; PAIN; QUESTIONNAIRE; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AMINES; ANALGESICS; ANTICONVULSANTS; CYCLOHEXANECARBOXYLIC ACIDS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HERPES ZOSTER; HERPESVIRUS 3, HUMAN; HUMANS; PAIN; PAIN MEASUREMENT; PLACEBOS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 70350025519     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6882-9-31     Document Type: Article

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