Wet Cupping Therapy in Ankylosing Spondylitis

NCT ID: NCT05792358

Last Updated: 2024-07-25

Study Results

Results pending

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION

Clinical Phase

NA

Total Enrollment

100 participants

Study Classification

INTERVENTIONAL

Study Start Date

2023-02-01

Study Completion Date

2025-12-01

Brief Summary

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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

Detailed Description

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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.

Conditions

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Ankylosing Spondylitis

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 arm

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

Group Type EXPERIMENTAL

wet cupping therapy

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

wet cupping therapy will be applied to participants in this arm for three sessions once a month

Control arm

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

Group Type NO_INTERVENTION

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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wet cupping therapy

wet cupping therapy will be applied to participants in this arm for three sessions once a month

Intervention Type PROCEDURE

Eligibility Criteria

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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).
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Maximum Eligible Age

65 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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Karabuk University

OTHER

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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SULEYMAN ERSOY

Head of the complementary medicine department

Responsibility Role PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Locations

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Karabuk University

Karabük, , Turkey (Türkiye)

Site Status

Countries

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Turkey (Türkiye)

Other Identifiers

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SBU177

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

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