Massage and Electroacupuncture in Chronic Lumbar Pain

University of Thessaly

Status: Completed

Conditions: Back Pain; Massage; Anesthesia, Local; Epidural; Electroacupuncture; Lumbar

Treatments: Drug: Epidural analgesia; Device: Electroacupuncture device

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04108546

8/19ης/22-11-2018

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aim of this study is to evaluate and compare in patients with chronic back pain two therapeutic interventions: a) the combination of massage and electroacupuncture; and b) the application of epidural analgesia in pain, functioning-incompetence, quality of life and mood.

Enrollment: 110 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients suffering from lumbar pain of benign etiology
• Age 20 to 65 years

Exclusion criteria

• Ages over 65 or below 20 years
• Neoplasms (benign or malignant etiology)
• Contagious or infectious disease
• Dermopathy
• Pregnancy
• Alcohol or drug use
• Previous use of epidural analgesia
• Systemic opioid use
• Severe heart disease
• Fever for more than one sessions
• Allergy to the oil which will be used and its derivatives
• Thrombi or varicose veins
• Psychiatric disease

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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110 participants in 2 patient groups

massage-electroacupuncture

Experimental group

Description:

Electroacupuncture will be applied throughout the back of the body, upper limbs and ears.Massage will follow the same paths of acupuncture points respectively

Treatment:

Device: Electroacupuncture device

Epidural analgesia

Active Comparator group

Description:

Epidural analgesia will be applied using lidocaine 2%, 1.5 ml, and Dexamethasone 8 mg

Treatment:

Drug: Epidural analgesia