Homeopathic treatment of low back pai

Phase 2

Completed

Conditions: Health Condition 1: M545- Low back pain

Registration Number: CTRI/2022/04/041878

Lead Sponsor: D N De Homoeopathic Medical College Hospital

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Completed

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 60

Inclusion Criteria

1. Patient suffering from low back pain for 3 months or more

2. Patients with radiological diagnosis indicating different causes of low back pain with mild to moderate degenerative radiological changes

3. Patients of age 18 to 65 years.

4. Patients of either sex.

5. Literate patients, able to read and write in Bengali, Hindi and/or English.

6. Patients giving written informed consent to participate

Exclusion Criteria

1. Patients with severe degenerative changes in radiological findings like spinal abnormalities, ankylosing spondylitis, epidural abscess, congenital abnormalities etc.

2. Patients with history of spinal surgery or requiring/willing for the same

3. Uncontrolled hypertension, diabetes, cancer, any other systemic illness, or any vital organ failure

4. Vulnerable population - unconscious, ambulatory, too sick for consultation, differently abled, terminally or critically ill patients, mentally incompetent people.

5. Patient with psychiatric illness and under homeopathic treatment for any chronic disease within last 6 months

6. Self-reported immune-compromised state

7. Patient under tobacco chewing and/or smoking, alcoholism and/or any other form(s) of substance abuse and/or dependence

8. Pregnant and puerperal women and lactating mothers

Study & Design

Study Type: Interventional

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Oswestry low back pain and disability questionnaire (ODQ)Timepoint: Baseline, every month, up to 4 months

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
McGill pain questionnaire short form (SF-MPQ)Timepoint: Baseline, every month, up to 4 months;Roland Morris pain and disability questionnaire (RMPDQ)Timepoint: Baseline, every month, up to 4 months