Fu's subcutaneous needling versus massage for chronic non-specific low-back pain: long-term follow-up results from a randomized controlled clinical trial
- Conditions
- chronic non-specific low-back pain
- Registration Number
- ITMCTR2100005278
- Lead Sponsor
- Yongchuan hospital of Chongqing medical university
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Recruiting
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- Not specified
(1) Meets diagnostic criteria of chronic NLBP (pain affecting the lumbosacral area and adjacent tissues, located from the bottom of ribs to inferior gluteal fold; (2) Complaint of pain lasting longer than 3 months with the VAS scores of at least 3; (3) No accompanying systemic diseases, such as tumors and tuberculosis, no psychiatric diseases, no neurological diseases that require surgery; (4) Age between 18-80 years old; (5) American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA) grade I to III; and (6) Voluntarily signed the informed consent.
(1) Fear of needles; (2) Patients with a history of spinal surgery; (3) Known or suspected serious spinal pathology (fractures, tumors, inflammatory, rheumatologic disorders, infectious diseases of the spine, spinal degeneration with nerve root or cauda equina nerve damage); (4) Severe cardiovascular or cerebrovascular diseases;(5) Pregnancy; and (6)Coagulation abnormality.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional study
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method functional outcomes;quality of life;functional disability;pain intensity;
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method