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临床试验/NCT00925951
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The Effectiveness of Wet Cupping on Persistent Non-specific Low Back Pain: A Randomized, Waiting-list Controlled, Open-label, Parallel-group Pilot Study

Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine1 个研究点 分布在 1 个国家目标入组 37 人开始时间: 2009年6月最近更新:
适应症
干预措施
相关药物

试验速览

阶段
不适用
状态
已完成
入组人数
37
试验地点
1
主要终点
Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) for pain

研究概览

简要总结

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.

研究设计

研究类型
Interventional
分配方式
Randomized
干预模型
Parallel
主要目的
Treatment
盲法
None

入排标准

年龄范围
20 Years 至 60 Years(Adult)
性别
All
接受健康志愿者

入选标准

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

排除标准

  • 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
  • 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.

研究组 & 干预措施

Wet Cupping

Experimental

干预措施: Wet Cupping (Device)

Wet Cupping

Experimental

干预措施: Acetaminophen (Drug)

Waiting Control

No Intervention

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).

干预措施: Acetaminophen (Drug)

结局指标

主要结局

Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) for pain

时间窗: study group: at base line, post-treatment, 4 weeks later after allocation; control group: at base line, 4 weeks later after allocation

次要结局

  • 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)

研究者

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