NCT01231425

Prospective Study of Clinical Utility of Acupuncture in Back Pain

Prospective Epidemiological Study To Evaluate The Clinical Utility Of Acupuncture In The Treatment Of Back Pain (Study PUCTURE-CV)

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: —
• Study type: Observational
• Enrollment: 102 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Group G-6 · Network
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate prospectively the effectiveness of acupuncture as adjunctive therapy in the treatment of spinal pain is the three backbone areas: cervical, thoracic and lumbar pain, under conditions of usual clinical practice as the medical acupuncturist performed acupuncture, with and without supplementary pharmacological treatment during the first 4 weeks of follow up.

Detailed description

Epidemiological, observational, prospective, with two cohorts, naturalistic and non-interventionist study. The disease to be studied is Back pain (cervical, thoracic or lumbar) caused by musculoskeletal pathologies and previously treated with conventional medical treatment with or without treatment currently.

Conditions

• Back Pain
• Musculoskeletal Disease

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-07-01
• Primary completion: 2012-06-01
• Completion: 2012-10-01
• First posted: 2010-11-01
• Last updated: 2011-11-08

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Spain