Pulsatile Cupping in Low Back Pain (Cupping-LBP)

Charité University Medicine Berlin

Status

Completed

Conditions

Chronic Low Back Pain

Treatments

Device: Minimal Cupping

Device: Pulsatile Cupping

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT02090686

Cupping-LBP

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine whether pulsatile cupping with a cupping device is effective in the treatment of patients with chronic low back pain compared to no cupping or to minimal cupping.

Enrollment

110 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 65 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Male and female, 18-65 years
Chronic low back pain (disease duration > 3 months)
Pain intensity on visual analogue scale at inclusion > 40 mm (0-100 mm scale)
Only pharmacological treatment with NSAID or no treatment in the last 4 weeks
Undersigned informed consent form

Exclusion criteria

Use of anticoagulants (Phenprocoumon, Heparin)
Coagulopathy
Cupping in the last 6 weeks
Other CAM therapies in the last 12 weeks (e.g. acupuncture)
Physical therapy in the last 12 weeks (e.g. massage, osteopathy)
participation in another study in the last 3 months
Paracetamol allergy or intolerance
Pathological neurological symptoms such as muscular paralysis or paraesthesia due to spinal disc herniation or other causes
Known renal and / or hepatic diseases
Intake of central nervous system-acting analgesics in the last 6 weeks
Applying for early retirement due to low back pain
Severe disease that does not allow participation
No undersigned informed consent form