The Evaluation of Single Acupoint Therapy to Acute Low Back Pain

Chang Gung Medical Foundation

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Acute Low Back Pain; Acupuncture

Treatments: Other: acupuncture

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04328428

202000002A3

Details and patient eligibility

About

Low back pain is the leading course of disability , affecting patients' health and work.

Recently, studies have reveal the fact that patients get insufficient physical activity and easily let acute stage turn to chronic type.

Although acupuncture for low back pain is worldwide popular, the mechanism of single acupoint for low back pain is still unclear.

Therefore, the aim of this study is the investigators choose the most frequent used acupoint and modified single acupoint method to assess the efficacy of single acupoint to acute low back pain.

Full description

Low back pain is the leading course of disability , affecting patients' health and work. According to the study in 2013, 8.9 percent people of the world experienced over three months low back pain.

Recently, studies have reveal the fact that patients get insufficient physical activity and easily let acute stage turn to chronic type.

Although acupuncture for low back pain is worldwide popular, the mechanism of single acupoint for low back pian is still unclear.

Therefore, the investigators choose the most frequent used acupoint and modified single acupoint method to assess the efficacy of single acupoint to acute low back pain.

The investigators would like to compare the efficacy of the modified Bladder 40 (BL40) acupuncture to single acupoint through statistical analysis.

The investigators expect that all group will alleviate low back pain. However, treatment group will have statistical difference compared with control groups.

The aim of this study is the investigators choose the most frequent used acupoint and modified single acupoint method to assess the efficacy of single acupoint to acute low back pain.

Enrollment: 90 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20+ years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• low back pain,duration < 1 month
• accept subject consent

Exclusion criteria

• without X ray or MRI image
• severe trauma , fracture or spondylosis found from image ,progression neurological symptoms suspected from central nerve system, rheumatic disease, fever or infection is suspected ,weight or cancer history , pregnancy and psychiatric disorder or not able to communication .

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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90 participants in 3 patient groups

(A)modified BL40 acupuncture

Experimental group

Description:

modified BL40 acupuncture Participants receive BL40 acupuncture once on the same site of low back pain.

Treatment:

Other: acupuncture

(B)EM32 acupuncture

Active Comparator group

Description:

EM32 acupuncture Participants receive EM32 acupuncture once on the opposite site.

Treatment:

Other: acupuncture

(C)BL40 acupuncture

Active Comparator group

Description:

BL40 acupuncture Participants receive BL40 acupuncture once on the same site of low back pain

Treatment:

Other: acupuncture