Study of treatment with Shockwaves in patients with Chronic Pain in the Lumbar Spine
- Conditions
- ow Back PainC05.651.550
- Registration Number
- RBR-6dtfb2r
- Lead Sponsor
- Departamento de Anestsiologia da Faculdade de Medicina de Botucatu
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
Age group between 30 and 80 years old; of both genders; diagnosed with musculoskeletal chronic low back pain for more than one year, without improvement with conservative treatment, and scores of pain intensity in , at least 20%, considering the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI), and pain intensity >5, considering the Numerical Visual Scale (VSN); all patients must be on stable doses (at least 10 days) of medications used to treat their low back pain at the time of enrollment in the study
Patients who present easily identifiable cognitive alterations; as well as those undergoing psychiatric treatment in which their illness is not in remission; individuals who have an indication for surgery or who have previously undergone surgery on the lumbar spine; pregnancy; coagulopathy and/or use of anticoagulants; systemic infections; presence of skin ulcers; presence of vessels at the treatment site; malignant neoplasms; cardiac arrhythmias and/or use of pacemakers; and epilepsy; patients with a diagnosis of fibromyalgia and a neuropathic component in their low back pain, diagnosed by DN4
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Intervention
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
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- Secondary Outcome Measures
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