Efficacy of Acupuncture for Chronic Low Back Pain
CompletedPhase 3NCT00065585
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This study has no listed site in Canada in this snapshot. It is included as part of the worldwide chronic pain corpus.
Brief summary (from the registry)
This is a trial to clarify the extent to which acupuncture needling can diminish the effect of chronic back pain on patient functioning and symptoms.
Study details
- Official title
- Efficacy of Acupuncture for Chronic Low Back Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Procedure: Accupuncture
- Sponsor
- Kaiser Permanente
- Collaborators
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
- Start date
- 2004-04
- Primary completion
- 2006-09
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 70 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- United States
- Total sites listed
- 2
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion criteria: * Diagnosis of low back pain including lumbago, unspecified backache, sprains and strains of sacroiliac, lumbar, sacral, or unspecified regions of the spine * Back pain must be of at least 3 months duration and rated at least 3 on a symptom bothersomeness scale Exclusion criteria: * non-mechanical causes or potential causes of low back pain (i.e. sciatica, underlying systemic or visceral disease, pregnancy, spondylolisthesis, spinal stenosis, cancer or unexplained weight loss, recent vertebral fracture) * previous treatment with acupuncture * inappropriate candidate for acupuncture (i.e. severe clotting disorders or on anticoagulant medication, heart pacemakers) * characteristics complicating the interpretation of the findings (severe or progressive neurologic deficits, back surgery within the prior three years, planning to seek other treatment for back pain) * characteristics related to ability to complete the study protocol (unable to speak English, plans to move out of town)
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00065585