Prospective Study of Clinical Utility of Acupuncture in Back Pain (PUCTURE-CV)

Group G-6

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Back Pain; Musculoskeletal Disease

Study type: Observational

Funder types: NETWORK

Identifiers

NCT01231425

GE6-ACU-2010-01

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate prospectively the effectiveness of acupuncture as adjunctive therapy in the treatment of spinal pain is the three backbone areas: cervical, thoracic and lumbar pain, under conditions of usual clinical practice as the medical acupuncturist performed acupuncture, with and without supplementary pharmacological treatment during the first 4 weeks of follow up.

Full description

Epidemiological, observational, prospective, with two cohorts, naturalistic and non-interventionist study.

The disease to be studied is Back pain (cervical, thoracic or lumbar) caused by musculoskeletal pathologies and previously treated with conventional medical treatment with or without treatment currently.

Enrollment: 102 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients of both sexes, aged 18 and over
• Patients diagnosed with back pain: cervical, thoracic or lumbar.
• Patients who has received appropriate medical treatment for their disease: analgesics, anti-inflammatories, or other treatments, but painful and symptoms persist
• Patients that could receive acupuncture treatment in order to reduce the symptoms and reviewed by a medical acupuncturist
• Patients with sufficient cultural and educational level to complete the health questionnaires required in the study
• Patients who have given their written informed consent to participate in the study

Exclusion criteria

• Patient with any illness and that medical opinions recommended not to participate in the study
• Patient can not respond to questionnaires administered during the study

Trial design

102 participants in 2 patient groups

With usual concomitant treatment

Description:

Two observational cohorts of patients will be evaluated: with and without concomitant analgesic/ antiinflammatory drugs. The objective is evaluate that both therapies (drugs and acupuncture) could be used as adjunctive therapy in order to maximize the analgesia that could be reached

Without usual concomitant treatment

Description:

This group include patients that are not been treated with analgesic drugs at the beginning of the study. As an observational and naturalistic study any indicated treatment is allowed in any time