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Wet Cupping (AlHijamah); Double Versus Single Cupping Technique

CompletedNot applicableNCT02631382
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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)

Randomized clinical trial to compare the effectiveness and safety of double (traditional) versus single (Asian) cupping techniques in chronic low back pain.

Study details

Official title
Wet Cupping (AlHijamah); Double Versus Single Cupping Technique in Chronic Low Back Pain Patients: Randomized Comparative Clinical Trial, Pilot Study Saudi Arabia, 2015
Conditions
Interventions
  • Procedure: wet cupping
Sponsor
National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Saudi Arabia
Start date
2015-11
Primary completion
2016-05
Sex
All
Age range
from 18 Years to 60 Years
Results posted
No results posted in this snapshot
Countries
Saudi Arabia
Total sites listed
2

Eligibility criteria

Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * Male and Female * Age equal or more than 18 years up to 60 years * Chronic low back pain (at least the duration ≥ 3 months) * Not on anti-inflammatory or pain killers for the last 15 days. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients received wet-cupping therapy before in the last three months * Patients who have low back pain due to specific and known etiological causes (infection, tumor, osteoporosis, ankylosing spondylitis, fracture, inflammatory process, radicular syndrome, and cauda equinal syndrome) * Patients who are inappropriate to the wet cupping treatment (AIDS, Hepatitis, Tuberculosis, Syphilis. The referring physicians will be advised to exclude those patients) * Patients currently receiving any anticoagulant, antiplatelet medications * Anemia, thrombocytopenia, Coagulopathy or Hemorrhagic disease like hemophilia * Had undergone a surgery, or had bleeding injury, or had blood donation * Uncontrolled hypertension, Ischemic heart disease, previous transient ischemic attack or stroke * Diabetes, known renal and / or hepatic diseases * Patients who are in pregnancy or have plan to conception * Previously or currently drug addicts * Any other severe disease or disabling medical condition

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT02631382