NCT05792358

Wet Cupping Therapy in Ankylosing Spondylitis

Wet Cupping Therapy in Ankylosing Spondylitis: a Multicenter Randomised Controlled Trial

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: Karabuk University · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

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

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

• Ankylosing Spondylitis

Interventions

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

Timeline

• Start date: 2023-02-01
• Primary completion: 2025-07-01
• Completion: 2025-10-30
• First posted: 2023-03-31
• Last updated: 2026-02-24

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Turkey (Türkiye)