Effects of acupuncture on patients with non-specific low back pain -The world's first double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial
Not Applicable
Recruiting
- Conditions
- on-specific low back pain
- Registration Number
- JPRN-UMIN000043725
- Lead Sponsor
- Tokyo Ariake University of Medical and Health Science
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 60
Inclusion Criteria
Not provided
Exclusion Criteria
1) Patients with underlying diseases related to low back pain (infection, lumbar herniation, spinal tumor, spinal cord tumor, rheumatism, lumbar vertebral compression fracture, osteoporosis, other central or peripheral neuropathy, circulatory disturbance of lower lumbar limb and other internal organ disease). 2) Those who are scheduled to receive treatment or therapy for the purpose of improving low back pain within 24 hours of after acupuncture treatment. 3) Pregnant subjects. 4) Persons with low back pain related to menstruation, etc.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Surface electromyography
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method 1)X-ray findings 2)Japanese version of Roland-Morris Disability Questionnaire 3)Japanese Orthopaedic Association Back Pain Evaluation Questionnaire (JOABPEQ) 4)Intensity of low back pain (Visual Analogue Scale) 5)Japanese version of Massachusetts General Hospital Acupuncture Sensation Scale 6)Practitioner and patient guess at the needle authenticity (Visual Analogue Scale)