The Effectiveness of Adding Cupping Therapy in Patients With Nonspecific Chronic Lumbar Pain (lowbackpain)

Faculdade de Ciências Médicas da Santa Casa de São Paulo

Status

Completed

Conditions

Low Back Pain, Mechanical

Low Back Pain, Postural

Low Back Pain, Posterior Compartment

Lower Back Pain Chronic

Treatments

Other: muscle strengthening exercises and dry cupping

Other: muscle strengthening exercises

Study type

Interventional

Funder types

Other

Identifiers

NCT04216810

Sidnei Correia

Details and patient eligibility

About

Low back pain is a major public health problem and is associated with a high rate of absenteeism at work, functional disability and frequent use of health services. Suction cup therapy is a common technique of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), which has been around for about 3,300 years in Asia and the Middle East and has as its main feature the decrease in signs and symptoms of chronic pain. The technique was widely used in the 19th century throughout Asia and Europe, and in recent years demand has been increasing, possibly due to the inefficiency of conventional therapies and medicines. Objective: To verify the effectiveness of the suction cup therapy technique associated with conventional physiotherapy in patients with chronic low back pain. Method: We will include individuals between 18 and 60 years old, both genders, with low back pain for more than 3 months, without having received physical therapy treatment for a period of 6 months. Individuals with severe spinal diseases, root conditions of the spine, carriers of vascular diseases and pregnant women will be excluded. They will be randomly divided into two groups, Conventional Physiotherapy (group 1) and Conventional Physiotherapy associated with suction cup therapy (group 2).

Enrollment

148 patients

Sex

All

Ages

18 to 60 years old

Volunteers

No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

nonspecific chronic low back pain without lower limb irradiation
Aged between 18 and 60 years,
Both genders
Low back pain for more than 3 months
Without having received physiotherapy treatment for a period of 6 months

Exclusion criteria

individuals with severe spinal diseases (fractures, tumors and inflammatory conditions such as ankylosing spondylitis)
root conditions of the spine (disc herniation and spondylolisthesis with neurological impairment and narrowing of the spinal canal)
root conditions of the spine
carriers of vascular diseases
pregnant women.