Effects of Bloodletting Acupuncture for Subacute and Chronic Non-specific Low Back Pain

Charité University Medicine Berlin

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Back Pain, Low

Treatments: Procedure: Bloodletting acupuncture at the fossa poplitea; Procedure: Bloodletting acupuncture at the regio glutaea

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06190366

Mikroaderlass

Details and patient eligibility

About

Evaluation of a bloodletting acupuncture at the fossa poplitea in comparison to bloodletting acupuncture at the regio glutaea and a waiting list control group in patients with subacute and chronic non-specific pain low back pain.

Enrollment: 108 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Specialist confirmed diagnosis of subacute or chronic non-specific low back pain for at least 6 weeks prior to inclusion
• Average pain intensity with at least 50 mm on the VAS from 0 to 100 mm

Exclusion criteria

• Serious illnesses
• Poor general condition
• Coagulation disorder, therapy with anticoagulants
• Thrombophlebitis, skin inflammation in the area of the lower extremities
• Alcohol, drug or medication addiction
• Pregnancy
• Lack of willingness to cooperate, linguistically or mentally unable to understand the contents of the study
• Participation in another clinical trial during the study period
• Starting a new therapy for the treatment of low back pain in the last 2 weeks

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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108 participants in 3 patient groups

Bloodletting acupuncture at the fossa poplitea

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Bloodletting acupuncture at the fossa poplitea

Bloodletting acupuncture at the regio glutaea

Experimental group

Treatment:

Procedure: Bloodletting acupuncture at the regio glutaea

Waiting list control group

No Intervention group