A Random Controlled Test (RCT): Acupuncture Treatment on Nonspecific Low Back Pain (NLBP) (ANLBP)

Beijing Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Status

Unknown

Conditions

Low Back Pain

Treatments

Other: Acupuncture Treatment

Other: Sham acupuncture

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01049074

JKH 081

Details and patient eligibility

About

Hypothesis: Acupuncture procedure of He's Santong Methods could be an option to treat nonspecific low back pain.

Full description

He's Santong Methods is a combined manipulated needling methods, including filiform needling, fire needling and bloodletting needling, which was created by Dr. He Puren who is one of the most famous TCM doctors in China.

Enrollment

534 estimated patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 79 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

The patient who is suffering the Non-specific Low Back Pain which meets the diagnostic criterion of posterior ramus of lumbar spinal nerve syndrome.
The patient who is from 18 to 79 years old.
The patient who can comprehensively understand and fill in the questionnaires about the disease.
The patient who suffered problems no less than 12 weeks.
The patient who have not the other diseases which can result in back pain.
The patient who received the clear examinations of X-ray, CT scan or MRI.
The patient who wrote the informed consents.

Exclusion criteria

The patient whose low back pain is the consequences of spondyloschisis, Spondylolysis, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, internal disease, metastatic tumor.
The patient who have the hemorrhagic disease such as hemophilia.
The patient who have the spinal diseases which have not been diagnosed clearly.