The Effect of Acupuncture in Treating Chronic Low-back Pain
Unknown statusNot applicableNCT02260284
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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 efficiency of acupuncture in treating chronic low-back pain
Study details
- Official title
- The Effect of Acupuncture in Treating Chronic Low-back Pain
- Conditions
- Ankylosing Spondylitis
- Low Back Pain
- Interventions
- Other: Yaotong points acupuncture
- Other: the usual care
- Other: standardized acupuncture
- Sponsor
- Chengdu PLA General Hospital
- Start date
- 2014-10
- Primary completion
- 2019-10
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 50 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: * with CLBP * without taking any other medication for the treatment of CLBP in at least 2 last weeks; * aged from 18 to 50 years; * without conflict to the written, informed consent signed prior to the enrollment. Exclusion Criteria: * pathological causes of chronic back pain (such as fractures, cancer, spinal stenosis and infections); * complicated back problems (such as scoliologic \>40° curvature, chronic spondylitis, sciatica, prior back surgery and other medicolegal issues); * with contraindications for acupuncture (e.g., cardiac pacemakers, coagulation disfunctions, being in pregnancy, seizure disorder); * conditions making treatment difficult (e.g., paralysis, psychoses); * conditions that might confound treatment effects or interpretation of results (e.g., severe fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, concurrent care from other providers); * previous acupuncture treatment for any condition.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02260284