Trials / Completed
CompletedNCT00925951
The Effectiveness of Wet Cupping on Persistent Non-specific Low Back Pain
The Effectiveness of Wet Cupping on Persistent Non-specific Low Back Pain: A Randomized, Waiting-list Controlled, Open-label, Parallel-group Pilot Study
- Status
- Completed
- Phase
- N/A
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 37 (estimated)
- Sponsor
- Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine · Other Government
- Sex
- All
- Age
- 20 Years – 60 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
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
Interventions
| Type | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
Timeline
- Start date
- 2009-06-01
- Primary completion
- 2009-12-01
- First posted
- 2009-06-22
- Last updated
- 2010-01-05
Locations
1 site across 1 country: South Korea
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00925951. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.