Effect of Laser Acupuncture Alone or Combined With Pranayama Exercise on Inflammation in Allergic Rhinitis

NCT05553483 | Unknown

• 1 other identifier: P.T.REC/012/003341
• Study Type: interventional
• Target: 60
• Locations: 1 country
• Sites: 1

Brief Summary

Allergic rhinitis (AR) represents one of the most common global health problems with seriously increasing incidence over the last decades.The goal of the treatment of rhinitis is to prevent or reduce the symptoms through reduction of the inflammation of affected tissues. Acupuncture and pranayama yoga exercises had reported a significant improvement in daily symptoms and an increase of symptom-free days in many studies enrolling patients.

Conditions

Allergic Rhinitis

Outcome Measures

Primary Outcomes (1)

• erothrocyte sidemention rate

  it is a inflammatory marker in serum

  It will be measured after 6 weeks

Secondary Outcomes (4)

• Immunoglobulin E

  It will be measured after 6 weeks

• interleukin 1-beta

  It will be measured after 6 weeks

• C-reactive protein

  It will be measured after 6 weeks

• total eosinophil count

  It will be measured after 6 weeks

Study Arms (2)

pranayama and acupoint stimulation by laser

EXPERIMENTAL

for 6 weeks,This 30-children group will receive 2-session per-week laser stimulation to some selected acupoints and daily pranyama exercises (nearly every session will be one hour), the stimulated bilateral acupoints will be (LI 19, LI 20, ST2, and ST4. ST6, ST7, ST17, ST36, SI18, BL2, GB14, GV24 and EXHN5). Every acupoint will be stimulated with laser power of 100 mw that will be used on a spot area of 1 cm2 for 1 minute. this group will receive also pranayama session (applied daily, one hour approximately, for six weeks) will be (alternate nostril pranayama, diaphragmatic pranayama, rapid abdominal pranayama, Bhramari pranayama)

Other: pranayama plus acupoint stimulation by laser

acupoint stimulation by laser

ACTIVE COMPARATOR

for six weeks, This 30-children group will receive 2-session per-week laser stimulation to some selected acupoints. The stimulated bilateral points will be (LI 19, LI 20, ST2, and ST4. ST6, ST7, ST17, ST36, SI18, BL2, GB14, GV24 and EXHN5). Every acupoint will be stimulated with laser power of 100 mw that will be used on a spot area of 1 cm2 for 1 minute.

Other: acupoint stimulation by laser

Interventions

pranayama plus acupoint stimulation by laser OTHER

This group will receive 2-session per-week laser stimulation (for six weeks) to some selected acupoints and daily pranyama exercises (nearly every session will be one hour), the stimulated bilateral acupoints will be (LI 19, LI 20, ST2, and ST4. ST6, ST7, ST17, ST36, SI18, BL2, GB14, GV24 and EXHN5). Every acupoint will be stimulated with laser power of 100 mw that will be used on a spot area of 1 cm2 for 1 minute. this group will receive also pranayama session (applied daily, one hour approximately, for six weeks) composed from (alternate nostril pranayama, diaphragmatic pranayama, rapid abdominal pranayama, Bhramari pranayama ).

pranayama and acupoint stimulation by laser

acupoint stimulation by laser OTHER

This group will receive 2-session per-week laser stimulation (for six weeks) to some selected acupoints. The stimulated bilateral acupoints will be (LI 19, LI 20, ST2, and ST4. ST6, ST7, ST17, ST36, SI18, BL2,GB14, GV24 and EXHN5). Every acupoint will be stimulated with laser power of 100 mw that will be used on a spot area of 1 cm2 for 1 minute.

acupoint stimulation by laser

Eligibility Criteria

• Age: 12 Years - 17 Years
• Gender Eligibility Details: from the governmental birth certificate, gender is written in it
• Healthy Volunteers: No
• Age Groups: Child (0-17)

You may qualify if:

• allergic rhinitis children
• physician-based diagnosis of allergic rhinitis

You may not qualify if:

• children with intellectual disabilities
• chest disease or heart disease or local congenital nose deformities
• participants received within-previous-six-months self-prescribed or by-therapist prescribed complementary therapies

Sponsors & Collaborators

• Cairo University: lead

Study Sites (1)

Cairo Unoversity

Giza, Egypt

RECRUITING

MeSH Terms

Conditions

Rhinitis, Allergic

Condition Hierarchy (Ancestors)

Rhinitis; Nose Diseases; Respiratory Tract Diseases; Respiratory Hypersensitivity; Otorhinolaryngologic Diseases; Hypersensitivity, Immediate; Hypersensitivity; Immune System Diseases

Study Officials

• Ali Ismail, lecturer

  Cairo University

  PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR

Central Study Contacts

Ali Ismail, lecturer

CONTACT

02 01005154209; ali.mohamed@pt.cu.edu.eg

heba mousa, Lecturer

CONTACT

hebamousa14@yahoo.com

Study Design

• Study Type: interventional
• Phase: not applicable
• Allocation: RANDOMIZED
• Masking: SINGLE
• Who Masked: OUTCOMES ASSESSOR
• Purpose: TREATMENT
• Intervention Model: PARALLEL
• Sponsor Type: OTHER
• Responsible Party: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR
• PI Title: lecturer of Physical Therapy for Cardiovascular / Respiratory Disorder and Geriatrics, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Cairo University

Study Record Dates

• First Submitted: September 21, 2022
• First Posted: September 23, 2022
• Study Start: September 15, 2021
• Primary Completion: December 1, 2022
• Study Completion: December 1, 2022
• Last Updated: September 23, 2022

Record last verified: 2022-09

Locations

EG (1)