Radial Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy for Chronic Non-specific Low Back Pain
CompletedNot applicableNCT03337607
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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)
This study tests the hypothesis that radial extracorporeal shock wave therapy (rESWT) in combination with the non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug Celecoxib and the antispasmodic drug Eperisone (hereafter, "C-E drug therapy") is statistically significantly more effective than either rESWT or C-E drug therapy alone in the treatment of chronic non-specific low back pain.
Study details
- Official title
- A Prospective, Randomized, Controlled, Single Centre Trial to Assess the Efficacy and Safety of Radial Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy in Patients With Chronic Non-specific Low Back Pain
- Conditions
- Interventions
- Device: rESWT
- Drug: Celecoxib
- Drug: Eperisone
- Sponsor
- First Affiliated Hospital of Zhejiang University
- Collaborators
- Ludwig-Maximilians - University of Munich
- Start date
- 2017-11-13
- Primary completion
- 2019-04-05
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 80 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: * Adults (both male and female) with non-specific low back pain for more than three months. * Age range: between 18 and 80 years. * Willingness of the patient to participate in the study, and written informed consent signed and personally dated by the patient. * Chronic non-specific low back pain clinically diagnosed as repeated lumbar sourness and swelling pain or a chronic progressive process, accompanied by (i) X-ray examination to exclude lumbar vertebrate fractures, spondylolysis, spondylolisthesis and severe osteoporosis, and/or (ii) MRI with normal signal or low nucleus pulposus signal. * No contraindications for rESWT. Exclusion Criteria: * Children and teenagers below the age of 18. * Elderly aged \>80 years old * No willingness of the patient to participate in the study, and/or written informed consent not signed and not personally dated by the patient. * Previous spinal fracture or spinal surgery. * Protrusion of a lumbar intervertebral disk, ankylosing spondylitis, scoliosis, lumbar spondylolisthesis and lumbar spondylolysis. * Systemic disorders and psychiatric disorders. * Contraindications of C-E drug treatment (treatment of patients allergy to celecoxib, eperisone or sulfonamides, patients with gastrointestinal bleeding or bleeding history, patients with renal dysfunction, patients with severe heart failure, and lactating women). * Contraindications of rESWT ( pregnant patients, patients with blood-clotting disorders \[including local thrombosis\], patients treated with oral anticoagulants, patients with local tumors, patients with local bacterial and/or viral infections \[including lumbar vertebral tuberculosis\], and patients treated with local corticosteroid applications in the time period of six weeks before the first rESWT session \[if applicable\]). * Participation in any other clinical trial in the time period of 12 weeks before potential inclusion in the proposed study.
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT03337607