The Effectiveness of Wet Cupping on Persistent Non-specific Low Back Pain

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Low Back Pain
• Interventions: Device: Wet Cupping; Drug: Acetaminophen

• Registration Number: NCT00925951
• Lead Sponsor: Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine

Brief Summary

The hypothesis of this study is that the improvement of Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) for Pain at the end of the study will be greater in the Wet Cupping Treatment group than in the Waiting Control group.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Status Verified: 2009-06
• Study Start: 2009-06
• Study First Submitted: 2009-06-19
• Study First Submitted QC: 2009-06-19
• Study First Posted: 2009-06-22
• Primary Completion: 2009-12
• Last Update Submitted: 2010-01-04
• Last Update Posted: 2010-01-05

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: All
• Target Recruitment: 37

Inclusion Criteria

• Patients who have had non-specific low back pains at least 12 weeks now.

Exclusion Criteria

• Patients who have low back pain due to specific and known etiological causes (infection, tumor, osteoporosis, ankylosing spondylitis, fracture, inflammatory process, radicular syndrome, cauda equinal syndrome).

• Patients who are inappropriate to the wet cupping treatment.

  • AIDS, Active Hepatitis, Tuberculosis, Syphilis
  • Patients who regularly take anticoagulants, antiplatelet drugs
  • Anemia, thrombocytopenia
  • Hemorrhagic disease like hemophilia
  • Diabetes
  • Severe cardiovascular disease
  • Kidney diseases (renal failure, chronic renal disease)

• Patients who have experiences of wet cupping treatment during last 3 months.

• Patients who have had treatment for low back pain during last 2 weeks.

• Patients who are in pregnancy or have plan to conception.

• Patients who have vertebra surgery or have plan of surgery.

• Patients who are inappropriate to join this trial judged by the radiologists or specialists.

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Wet Cupping	Wet Cupping	-
Wet Cupping	Acetaminophen	-
Waiting Control	Acetaminophen	They can't use any other specific treatment except exercises and behavior modification (we'll offer a brochure which includes exercise method and directions about behavior modifications).

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) for pain	study group: at base line, post-treatment, 4 weeks later after allocation; control group: at base line, 4 weeks later after allocation

Secondary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Medication Quantification Scale (MQS)	study group: at base line, post-treatment, 4 weeks later after allocation; control group: at base line, 4 weeks later after allocation
Present Pain Intensity Scale of the McGill Pain Questionaire (PPI)	study group: at base line, post-treatment, 4 weeks later after allocation; control group: at base line, 4 weeks later after allocation
General Assessment of Doctors and Subjects	study group: at base line, post-treatment, 4 weeks later after allocation; control group: at base line, 4 weeks later after allocation
Safety measurement	study group: at base line, post-treatment, 4 weeks later after allocation; control group: at base line, 4 weeks later after allocation
Oswestry Disability Questionnaire (ODQ)	study group: at base line, post-treatment, 4 weeks later after allocation; control group: at base line, 4 weeks later after allocation

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Korea Institue of Oriental Medicine (KIOM), Doonsan Oriental Hospital of Daejeon University; 🇰🇷 Daejeon, Chungchong, Korea, Republic of