The Effectiveness of Wet Cupping on Persistent Non-specific Low Back Pain

Study Results

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

COMPLETED

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

37 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2009-06-30

Brief Summary

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The hypothesis of this study is that the improvement of Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) for Pain at the end of the study will be greater in the Wet Cupping Treatment group than in the Waiting Control group.

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Detailed Description

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Conditions

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Low Back Pain

Study Design

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Allocation Method

RANDOMIZED

Intervention Model

PARALLEL

Primary Study Purpose

TREATMENT

Blinding Strategy

NONE

Study Groups

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Wet Cupping

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

Wet Cupping

Intervention Type DEVICE

Wet cupping (Seongho trade \& company, Korea) will be practiced at two selected points (among the 6 acupoints, left or right BL23, BL24, BL25)

Acetaminophen

Intervention Type DRUG

Acetaminophen 500 mg tablets will be offered to both of the wet cupping group and waiting group for relieving severe pain.

Waiting Control

They can't use any other specific treatment except exercises and behavior modification (we'll offer a brochure which includes exercise method and directions about behavior modifications).

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

Acetaminophen

Intervention Type DRUG

Acetaminophen 500 mg tablets will be offered to both of the wet cupping group and waiting group for relieving severe pain.

Interventions

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Wet Cupping

Wet cupping (Seongho trade \& company, Korea) will be practiced at two selected points (among the 6 acupoints, left or right BL23, BL24, BL25)

Intervention Type DEVICE

Acetaminophen

Acetaminophen 500 mg tablets will be offered to both of the wet cupping group and waiting group for relieving severe pain.

Intervention Type DRUG

Other Intervention Names

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Disposable wet cupping cup, Seongho trade & company, Korea

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Patients who have had non-specific low back pains at least 12 weeks now.

Exclusion Criteria

* Patients who have low back pain due to specific and known etiological causes (infection, tumor, osteoporosis, ankylosing spondylitis, fracture, inflammatory process, radicular syndrome, cauda equinal syndrome).
* Patients who are inappropriate to the wet cupping treatment.

* AIDS, Active Hepatitis, Tuberculosis, Syphilis
* Patients who regularly take anticoagulants, antiplatelet drugs
* Anemia, thrombocytopenia
* Hemorrhagic disease like hemophilia
* Diabetes
* Severe cardiovascular disease
* Kidney diseases (renal failure, chronic renal disease)
* Patients who have experiences of wet cupping treatment during last 3 months.
* Patients who have had treatment for low back pain during last 2 weeks.
* Patients who are in pregnancy or have plan to conception.
* Patients who have vertebra surgery or have plan of surgery.
* Patients who are inappropriate to join this trial judged by the radiologists or specialists.

Minimum Eligible Age

20 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

60 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No