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IRCT2016031327036N1 IRCT 2017-05-05 Vice chancellor for research,Mashhad university of medical sciences efficacy of acupuncture on symptoms of htlv1 patients Study of the efficacy of acupuncture in the control of patients’ symptoms with HTLV1 Associated Myelopathy/Tropical Spastic Paraparesis (HAM/TSP( 2015-06-22 anticipated 20 Complete https://irct.ir/trial/22261 interventional Randomization: N/A, Blinding: Single blinded, Placebo: Not used, Assignment: Single, Purpose: Treatment. N/A Condition 1: HTLV1 Associated Myelopathy/Tropical Spastic Paraparesis (HAM/TSP). Condition 2: HTLV1 Associated Myelopathy/Tropical Spastic Paraparesis (HAM/TSP). Intervention: In this study, the intervention is semi-experimental with pretest and posttest measure design. The patients will be neurologically examined in clinic and their peripheral blood samples will be evaluated for detection of viral load. Subsequently, the patients will receive acupuncture treatment three sessions a week for four weeks. The patients will be neurologically reexamined and for the second time the blood viral loads will be measured immediately after the intervention. Then, the same evaluation is planned to be performed three months after initial therapy using the described criteria..
public Dr Amirali Ghahremani
Knowledge and Health City,In the end of Shahid Fakouri Blvd, Mashhad,Iran
Mashhad Iran (Islamic Republic of) 99191-91778 +98 51 38049 ghahremaniaa921@mums.ac.ir؛ shoeibia@gmail.com Mashahd university of medical scientific Dr Ali Shoeibi
Knowledge and Health City,In the end of Shahid Fakouri Blvd, Mashhad,Iran
Mashhad Iran (Islamic Republic of) 9919191778 +98 51 38049 shoeibia@mums.ac.ir؛ shoeibia@gmail.com Mashhad university of medical Iran (Islamic Republic of) Inclusion criteria: Informed consent, and confirmation of HAM / TSP according to World Health Organization (WHO) criteria Exclusion criteria: Patients who have contraindications for acupuncture such as wound or skin infection at the time of acupuncture therapy or bleeding diathesis; patients who suffer from other illness that may exacerbate the paraparesis such as vitamin B12 deficiency. The intervention is acupuncture. no limit no limit Both G04.1 B33.3 Tropical spastic paraplegia Retrovirus infections, not elsewhere classified Rehabilitation Intervention: In this study, the intervention is semi-experimental with pretest and posttest measure design. The patients will be neurologically examined in clinic and their peripheral blood samples will be evaluated for detection of viral load. Subsequently, the patients will receive acupuncture treatment three sessions a week for four weeks. The patients will be neurologically reexamined and for the second time the blood viral loads will be measured immediately after the intervention. Then, the same evaluation is planned to be performed three months after initial therapy using the described criteria. Spastic Paraparasy. Timepoint: Before the intervention and After the intervention then three months after the intervention. Method of measurement: on basis of Criterion ashworth. Incontinency. Timepoint: Before the intervention and After the intervention then three months after the intervention. Method of measurement: on basis of Criterion ICIQ-SF. Back pain. Timepoint: Before the intervention and After the intervention then three months after the intervention. Method of measurement: on basis of Criterion VAS. Disability. Timepoint: Before the intervention and After the intervention then three months after the intervention. Method of measurement: on basis of Criterion OMDS. Viral load. Timepoint: Before the intervention After the intervention, three months after the intervention. Method of measurement: DNA copy number of virus per mononuclear cells. -. Timepoint: -. Method of measurement: -. Vice chancellor for research,Mashhad university of medical sciences Approved 2015-05-27 Ethics Committee of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences Township health knowledge, Fakury boulevard,Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran Mashhad Iran (Islamic Republic of)