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

NCT00925951 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 37

Last updated 2010-01-05

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

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.

Conditions

  • Low Back Pain

Interventions

DEVICE

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)

DRUG

Acetaminophen

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

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Sun-mi Choi, Doctor · Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine (KIOM)

  • Jong-In Kim, Doctor · Korea Institue of Oriental Medicine (KIOM)

  • Tae-hun Kim, Doctor · Korea Institue of Oriental Medicine (KIOM)

Study Design

Allocation
RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age
20 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2009-06-30
Primary Completion
2009-12-31

Countries

  • South Korea

Study Locations

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