Acupuncture for nasal congestion: A prospective, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical pilot study

American Journal of Rhinology and Allergy

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Sertel, Serkan ^a   Bergmann, Zazie ^a   Ratzlaff, Kerstin ^a   Baumann, Ingo ^a   Greten, Henry Johannes ^b,c   Plinkert, Peter Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b German Society of Traditional Chinese Medicine   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Active anterior rhinomanometry (RRM); Acupuncture; Chronic sinusitis without polyposis; Heidelberg blinding assay; Heidelberg model; Hypertrophy of inferior turbinate; Nasal airflow (NAF); Nasal congestion; Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM); Visual analogue scale (VAS)

Indexed keywords

ACUPUNCTURE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHINESE MEDICINE; CHRONIC SINUSITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; FEMALE; HEMATOMA; HUMAN; MALE; NOSE AIRFLOW; NOSE CONGESTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RHINOMANOMETRY; VERUM ACUPUNCTURE; VISUAL ANALOG SCALE;

ACUPUNCTURE THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPEROSTOSIS; MALE; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL OBSTRUCTION; PILOT PROJECTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PULMONARY VENTILATION; RHINOMANOMETRY; SINUSITIS; TURBINATES;

EID: 76249107238     PISSN: 19458924     EISSN: 19458932     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2500/ajra.2009.23.3380     Document Type: Article

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