Acupuncture for Treatment of Chronic LBP, RCT, Single Blinded
Unknown statusPhase 3NCT00353847
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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)
The purpose of this study is to determine whether acupuncture is effective and safe in the treatment of chronic LBP.
Study details
- Official title
- A Randomized, Single Blind, Controlled Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Pain Relief Efficacy, Functional Improvement and Safety of Acupuncture in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Sponsor
- Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine
- Start date
- 2006-07
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 20 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- South Korea
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Having chronic, non-specific, LBP of at least 3 months' duration over 20 years old. * Back pain must be the chief complaint * Having normal neurological test * Having signature voluntarily an IRB-approved consent form at enrollment Exclusion Criteria: * Potential spinal disease (e.g. a spinal tumor, infection or fracture etc) * Other diseases (e.g. bleeding disease, dementia,epilepsy, neurogenic disorder etc) * Planned or got lumbar surgery * The prior use of acupuncture within the past 6 months * Inflammatory arthritis * The current use of systematic corticosteroids, narcotics, anticoagulants, muscle relaxants * The involvement in legal problem related to LBP * Refusal to be randomized
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00353847