A Randomized, Single Blind, Controlled Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Pain Relief Efficacy, Functional Improvement and Safety of Acupuncture in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain

Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine1 site in 1 country50 target enrollmentJuly 2006

Overview

The purpose of this study is to determine whether acupuncture is effective and safe in the treatment of chronic LBP.

The purpose of this study is as follows: 1. pain : VAS 2. Function : Roland Disability Scale 3. Side effect 4. Validity

Registry

clinicaltrials.gov

Start Date

July 2006

End Date

TBD

Last Updated

19 years ago

Study Type

Interventional

Study Design

Parallel

Sex

All

Sponsor

•Having chronic, non-specific, LBP of at least 3 months' duration over 20 years old.
•Back pain must be the chief complaint
•Having normal neurological test
•Having signature voluntarily an IRB-approved consent form at enrollment

•Potential spinal disease (e.g. a spinal tumor, infection or fracture etc)
•Other diseases (e.g. bleeding disease, dementia,epilepsy, neurogenic disorder etc)
•Planned or got lumbar surgery
•The prior use of acupuncture within the past 6 months
•Inflammatory arthritis
•The current use of systematic corticosteroids, narcotics, anticoagulants, muscle relaxants
•The involvement in legal problem related to LBP
•Refusal to be randomized