Bee Venom Acupuncture for the Treatment of Chronic Low Back Pain
Unknown statusPhase 2NCT01491321
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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 evaluate the efficacy of bee venom acupuncture on pain intensity, functional status and quality of life of patients with chronic low back pain.
Study details
- Official title
- Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy of Bee Venom Acupuncture on Chronic Low Back Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Procedure: Bee Venom Acupuncture Therapy
- Drug: Loxoprofen
- Procedure: Placebo
- Sponsor
- Kyunghee University Medical Center
- Collaborators
- Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong
- Start date
- 2011-04
- Primary completion
- 2012-03
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 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: * nonspecific, chronic low back pain over 3 months * Must have LBP of more than VAS 4 Exclusion Criteria: * cancer, vertebral fracture, spinal infection, inflammatory spondylitis * spinal operation * radicular pain * other musculoskeletal pain * physicological or mental disorders * allergic history to BV therapy or insect bite
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT01491321