Massage Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain

Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Status and phase

Completed

Phase 3

Phase 2

Conditions

Low Back Pain

Treatments

Drug: Ibuprofen

Other: Massage

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT01973010

2011SZ0302.1

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether massage is effective in the treatment of low back pain and to optimize clinical therapeutic schedule of massage for low back pain.

Full description

Chronic low back pain is a prevalent condition among adults. Large majority of the population suffer from Chronic low back pain in their lifetime. At present, there is still no standard treatment for chronic low back pain. Massage is commonly chose and widely used by sufferer as a complement to conventional treatment. However, its effectiveness is still not convinced. This trial is designed to assess the effectiveness of massage for chronic low back pain.

Enrollment

150 patients

Sex

All

Ages

20 to 55 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

In accordance of the diagnostic criteria of low back pain;
Age between 20 and 55 years old;
Not taking hormone drugs or antirheumatic drugs within the latest 2 months;
No allergy history of hormone drugs Pain medicine;
volunteer participation and signing an informed consent in writing.

Exclusion criteria

Being pregnant or during lactation;
Having suffered from serious psychiatric, neurologic, cardiovascular, respiratory, or renal illnesses, and so forth;
Severe neurological deficits caused by severe lumbar disc protrusion, and operation indications;
Receiving message therapy in past 3 months for releasing low back pain.