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Efficacy and safety of acupuncture for the treatment of non-specific acute low back pain: a randomised controlled multicentre trial

Department of Health and Consumption - Institute of Health Carlos III (Spain)0 个研究点目标入组 275 人开始时间: 2006年2月22日最近更新: 2019年7月1日

试验速览

•1. Signed informed consent form
•2. New episode of non-specific acute low back pain of less than two weeks evolution, with or without irradiation (diagnosed by clinical history and physical examination). We define new as the first episode in at least the last six months.
•3. Patients of working age (whether in paid employment or not), either occupationally active or absent from work because of back pain
•4. No previous treatment with acupuncture (in order to minimise the possibility of patients being able to distinguish the real acupuncture treatment from the various control (placebo) modes

•1. More than one absence from work because of back pain within a period of six months (in order to eliminate possible mercenary motives)
•2. The presence of alarm signs that suggest the protrusion or prolapse of one or more intervertebral disks with concurrent neurological symptoms, infectious spondylopathy, previous surgery affecting the spine, low back pain caused by inflammatory illness, whether malign or autoimmune, congenital deformities of the spine except for slight scholiosis or lordosis, vertebral fractures, stenosis of the spinal canal, spondylolysis or spondylolisthesis
•3. Contraindications for acupuncture such as extensive skin disorders, treatment with anticoagulants, or pregnancy
•4. Inability to complete the questionnaires or to answer the questions of the assessor

发起方

Department of Health and Consumption - Institute of Health Carlos III (Spain)