Intelligent Moxibustion Robot in the Treatment of Low Back Pain

Shanxi Acupuncture and Moxibustion Hospital

Status: Enrolling

Conditions: Moxibustion; Low Back Pain

Treatments: Other: Artificial moxibustion; Other: Intelligent Moxibustion Robot

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05704127

ShanxiAcupuncture

Details and patient eligibility

About

The intelligent moxibustion robot is applied to the clinical treatment of low back pain to verify its effectiveness and safety

Full description

Shanxi Acupuncture and Moxibustion Hospital and North University of China jointly developed an "intelligent thunder-fire moxibustion" robot with six degrees of freedom mechanical arm as the core and will be applied in clinical practice to verify its clinical efficacy. In clinical practice, patients with low back pain were recruited jointly by several hospitals and divided into two groups. Intelligent thunder-fire moxibustion robot and artificial thunder-fire moxibustion were respectively used for treatment. The clinical efficacy and safety of intelligent thunder-fire moxibustion robot were evaluated through comparative analysis of outcome indexes such as VAS pain scale and serum inflammatory factors.

Enrollment: 160 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 25 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• 1.It is consistent with the diagnostic criteria of low back pain and the syndrome differentiation criteria of cold and wet lumbar muscle strain.
• 2.There is no gender limitation, and the age should be between 25 and 70 years old
• 3.No treatment of traditional Chinese and western medicine related to lumbago was received in the past 2 weeks
• 4.The course of disease was controlled within 8 years
• 5.Informed consent, willing to cooperate with the whole treatment
• 6.Agree to record the scale score and volunteer to participate in this experiment
• 7.At least one contact information should be reserved for patients to receive follow-up visits
• 8.In order to reduce the rate of shedding, priority is included in hospitalized patients

Exclusion criteria

• 1.Patients do not meet the inclusion criteria Patients who do not meet the diagnostic inclusion criteria of this subject
• 2.The patient is in the pregnancy or lactation period
• 3.Patients are allergic to moxibustion smoke, and it is difficult to accept moxibustion treatment
• 4.The patient suffers from diseases of the blood and immune system
• 5.Patients with cardiac, liver and renal insufficiency
• 6.The patient suffers from mental illness and cannot cooperate with moxibustion
• 7.The patient suffered from lumbar spine tuberculosis, bone cancer and other diseases, which affected the experimental results

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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160 participants in 2 patient groups

Intelligent Moxibustion Robot

Experimental group

Description:

The intelligent moxibustion robot holds the thunder fire moxibustion stick and conducts suspension moxibustion treatment on the points BL23, BL25, DU3 and pain points for 10 minutes in each group, a total of 40 minutes. BL23 and BL25 have one acupuncture point on each side of the spine, and the straight line reciprocating moxibustion technique is adopted. DU3, a single point, adopts the whirling moxibustion technique. Pain points,according to the number of pain points, choose straight reciprocating moxibustion or rotary moxibustion.

Treatment:

Other: Intelligent Moxibustion Robot

Artificial moxibustion

Experimental group

Description:

The people hold the thunder fire moxibustion stick and conducts suspension moxibustion treatment on the points BL23, BL25, DU3 and pain points for 10 minutes in each group, a total of 40 minutes. BL23 and BL25 have one acupuncture point on each side of the spine, and the straight line reciprocating moxibustion technique is adopted. DU3, a single point, adopts the whirling moxibustion technique. Pain points,according to the number of pain points, choose straight reciprocating moxibustion or rotary moxibustion.

Treatment:

Other: Artificial moxibustion