Acupuncture for Treatment of Chronic LBP, RCT, Single Blinded

Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine

Status and phase: Unknown; Phase 3

Conditions: Chronic Low Back Pain

Treatments: Device: Acupuncture

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00353847

KYD-06

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether acupuncture is effective and safe in the treatment of chronic LBP.

Full description

The purpose of this study is as follows:

1. pain : VAS
2. Function : Roland Disability Scale
3. Side effect
4. Validity

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Having chronic, non-specific, LBP of at least 3 months' duration over 20 years old.
• Back pain must be the chief complaint
• Having normal neurological test
• Having signature voluntarily an IRB-approved consent form at enrollment

Exclusion criteria

• Potential spinal disease (e.g. a spinal tumor, infection or fracture etc)
• Other diseases (e.g. bleeding disease, dementia,epilepsy, neurogenic disorder etc)
• Planned or got lumbar surgery
• The prior use of acupuncture within the past 6 months
• Inflammatory arthritis
• The current use of systematic corticosteroids, narcotics, anticoagulants, muscle relaxants
• The involvement in legal problem related to LBP
• Refusal to be randomized

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind