Wet Cupping Therapy in Ankylosing Spondylitis

Karabuk University

Status: Invitation-only

Conditions: Ankylosing Spondylitis

Treatments: Procedure: wet cupping therapy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05792358

SBU177

Details and patient eligibility

About

This study evaluates the efficacy of wet cupping therapy in patients with ankylosing spondylitis.Wet cupping therapy will be applied to half of the patients plus routine pharmaceutical treatment while the other half will receive only pharmaceutics

Full description

In addition to the medical treatment, WCT will be applied once a month, 3 times (Day 0, 30, 60) to the intervention group whereas the control group will not receive any intervention. The BASFI, BASDAI, VAS and Schober test will be applied to both groups at 0 and 3 months.

Enrollment: 100 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

Clinical diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis 18-65 years of age Consent to participate

Exclusion criteria

Any ongoing medical treatment other than NSAIDs Pregnancy At least one contraindication to WCT that was detected in subject's history or in the routine blood examinations prior to enrollment (Hgb <9.5; INR> 1.2; history of hemophobia, bleeding disorder, malignant disorder).

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 2 patient groups

Wet cupping arm

Experimental group

Description:

This arm is the interventiom group and will receive three consecutive sessions of wet cupping therapy once a month.

Treatment:

Procedure: wet cupping therapy

Control arm

No Intervention group

Description:

This arm is the control group and will not receive any intervention other than the routine medications