Massage, Meditation, and Tai Chi for Chronic Lower Back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT00070915
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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 clinical trial is a preliminary study designed to prepare for a full-scale, randomized clinical trial of the effectiveness of tai chi, mediation, and therapeutic massage for chronic lower back pain in adults.
Study details
- Official title
- Relaxation-Related CAM Therapies for Chronic Back Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Behavioral: Tai chi
- Behavioral: Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction program
- Procedure: Therapeutic massage
- Sponsor
- Kaiser Permanente
- Collaborators
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
- Start date
- 2000-09
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 20 Years to 64 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Total sites listed
- 0
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria * Chronic lower back pain
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00070915