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| Title |
Acupuncture in acute herpes zoster pain therapy (ACUZoster) – design and protocol of a randomised controlled trial
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| Published in |
BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies, August 2009
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6882-9-31 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Johannes Fleckenstein, Sybille Kramer, Philipp Hoffrogge, Sarah Thoma, Philip M Lang, Lukas Lehmeyer, Gabriel M Schober, Florian Pfab, Johannes Ring, Peter Weisenseel, Klaus J Schotten, Ulrich Mansmann, Dominik Irnich |
| Abstract |
Acute herpes zoster is a prevalent condition. One of its major symptoms is pain, which can highly influence patient's quality of life. Pain therapy is limited. Acupuncture is supposed to soften neuropathic pain conditions and might therefore act as a therapeutic alternative. Objective of the present study is to investigate whether a 4 week semi-standardised acupuncture is non-inferior to sham laser acupuncture and the anticonvulsive drug gabapentine in the treatment of pain associated with herpes zoster. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 85 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 19 | 22% |
| Researcher | 9 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 9 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 8 | 9% |
| Other | 6 | 7% |
| Other | 20 | 23% |
| Unknown | 15 | 17% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 39 | 45% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 10% |
| Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science | 5 | 6% |
| Psychology | 5 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 8 | 9% |
| Unknown | 17 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 5. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 January 2014.
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#6,267,699
of 22,741,406 outputs
Outputs from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#1,001
of 3,621 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#32,724
of 111,755 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Complementary Medicine and Therapies
#6
of 11 outputs
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