Acupuncture for Early Parkinson’s Motor Symptoms: A Multicenter Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol
Jiewen Zhang, Yici Xie, Weixin Huang, Junshang Wu, Lubao Feng, Hongtao Li, Xinyan Jia, Xie Zhang, Xiaorong Tang, Fangfei Yu, Zhengni Dong, Shaoyang Cui, Wenhao Liu, Xiaodong Zhu, Zining Guo, Nenggui Xu, Lin Wang · 2026
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Jiewen Zhang and a large team publish a 2026 protocol for a trial of acupuncture in early Parkinson's disease. Drug treatment for movement problems in early Parkinson's has stalled, and acupuncture is widely used but weakly proven. The trial will run at several centers with a randomized, sham-controlled design. Neither patients nor assessors will know who gets real needling.
The plan enrolls 136 people, split evenly between real and sham acupuncture, with twelve sessions over four weeks. The main outcome is a standard rating of movement problems. Other measures cover walking, disease stage, daily life, and quality of life. Drug doses will be tracked, and blood samples will feed gene-product and chemical profiling. Follow-up runs eight weeks. The protocol paper sets out the plan; trial results are not yet reported.
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| CREATOR | Jiewen Zhang, Yici Xie, Weixin Huang, Junshang Wu, Lubao Feng, Hongtao Li, Xinyan Jia, Xie Zhang, Xiaorong Tang, Fangfei Yu, Zhengni Dong, Shaoyang Cui, Wenhao Liu, Xiaodong Zhu, Zining Guo, Nenggui Xu, Lin Wang |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 55939 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |