Status:
COMPLETED
The Effectiveness of Wet Cupping on Persistent Non-specific Low Back Pain
Lead Sponsor:
Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine
Conditions:
Low Back Pain
Eligibility:
All Genders
20-60 years
Phase:
NA
Brief Summary
The hypothesis of this study is that the improvement of Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) for Pain at the end of the study will be greater in the Wet Cupping Treatment group than in the Waiting Control group...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Patients who have had non-specific low back pains at least 12 weeks now.
Exclusion
- Patients who have low back pain due to specific and known etiological causes (infection, tumor, osteoporosis, ankylosing spondylitis, fracture, inflammatory process, radicular syndrome, cauda equinal syndrome).
- Patients who are inappropriate to the wet cupping treatment.
- AIDS, Active Hepatitis, Tuberculosis, Syphilis
- Patients who regularly take anticoagulants, antiplatelet drugs
- Anemia, thrombocytopenia
- Hemorrhagic disease like hemophilia
- Diabetes
- Severe cardiovascular disease
- Kidney diseases (renal failure, chronic renal disease)
- Patients who have experiences of wet cupping treatment during last 3 months.
- Patients who have had treatment for low back pain during last 2 weeks.
- Patients who are in pregnancy or have plan to conception.
- Patients who have vertebra surgery or have plan of surgery.
- Patients who are inappropriate to join this trial judged by the radiologists or specialists.
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
June 1 2009
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ESTIMATED
End Date :
Estimated Enrollment :
37 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00925951
Start Date
June 1 2009
Last Update
January 5 2010
Active Locations (1)
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Korea Institue of Oriental Medicine (KIOM), Doonsan Oriental Hospital of Daejeon University
Daejeon, Chungchong, South Korea, 302-869