Homeopathic medicines for low back pain following caesarean delivery under spinal anesthesia
- Conditions
- Health Condition 1: G892- Chronic pain, not elsewhere classified
- Registration Number
- CTRI/2022/04/041961
- Lead Sponsor
- The Calcutta Homoeopathic Medical College and Hospital
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 60
1. Female subjects suffering from backache for 3 months or more following caesarean section.
2. Age between 18 and 45 years.
3. Literate patients; ability to read English and/or Bengali
4. Providing with written informed consent
1. Cases with complications of pelvic inflammatory diseases.
2. Patients having history of recurrent urinary tract infections.
3. Cases presenting with confounding variables such as backache existing before caesarean section.
4. Patients who have undergone caesarean section under general anesthesia
5. Vulnerable population - unconscious, ambulatory, too sick for consultation, differently abled, terminally ill or critically ill patients, mentally incompetent people.
6. Diagnosed cases of unstable mental or psychiatric illness or other uncontrolled or life-threatening illness affecting quality of life or any organ failure
7. Pregnant and puerperal women, lactating mothers
8. Patient under tobacco chewing and/or smoking, alcoholism and/or any other form(s) of substance abuse and/or dependence
9. Self-reported immune-compromised state
10. Already undergoing homoeopathic treatment for chronic disease within last 6 months
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Short Form McGill Pain Questionnaire (SF-MPQ)Timepoint: At baseline, and every month, up to 3 months
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Oswestry Low Back Pain Disability Questionnaire (ODQ)Timepoint: At baseline, and every month, up to 3 months