Pulsatile Cupping in Low Back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT02090686
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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 pulsatile cupping with a cupping device is effective in the treatment of patients with chronic low back pain compared to no cupping or to minimal cupping.
Study details
- Official title
- Efficacy of Pulsatile Cupping in Patients With Chronic Low Back Pain - a Randomized Controlled Study.
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Device: Pulsatile Cupping
- Device: Minimal Cupping
- Sponsor
- Charite University, Berlin, Germany
- Collaborators
- HeVaTech GmbH
- Start date
- 2014-03
- Primary completion
- 2014-10
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 Years
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Germany
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Male and female, 18-65 years * Chronic low back pain (disease duration \> 3 months) * Pain intensity on visual analogue scale at inclusion \> 40 mm (0-100 mm scale) * Only pharmacological treatment with NSAID or no treatment in the last 4 weeks * Undersigned informed consent form Exclusion Criteria: * Use of anticoagulants (Phenprocoumon, Heparin) * Coagulopathy * Cupping in the last 6 weeks * Other CAM therapies in the last 12 weeks (e.g. acupuncture) * Physical therapy in the last 12 weeks (e.g. massage, osteopathy) * participation in another study in the last 3 months * Paracetamol allergy or intolerance * Pathological neurological symptoms such as muscular paralysis or paraesthesia due to spinal disc herniation or other causes * Known renal and / or hepatic diseases * Intake of central nervous system-acting analgesics in the last 6 weeks * Applying for early retirement due to low back pain * Severe disease that does not allow participation * No undersigned informed consent form
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02090686