Massage Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain
CompletedPhase 2, Phase 3NCT01973010
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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 massage is effective in the treatment of low back pain and to optimize clinical therapeutic schedule of massage for low back pain.
Study details
- Official title
- Phase 1 Study of Massage Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Sponsor
- Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
- Start date
- 2013-06
- Primary completion
- 2014-05
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 20 Years to 55 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- China
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * In accordance of the diagnostic criteria of low back pain; * Age between 20 and 55 years old; * Not taking hormone drugs or antirheumatic drugs within the latest 2 months; * No allergy history of hormone drugs Pain medicine; * volunteer participation and signing an informed consent in writing. Exclusion Criteria: * Being pregnant or during lactation; * Having suffered from serious psychiatric, neurologic, cardiovascular, respiratory, or renal illnesses, and so forth; * Severe neurological deficits caused by severe lumbar disc protrusion, and operation indications; * Receiving message therapy in past 3 months for releasing low 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/NCT01973010