Complementary Medicine Practices in Chronic Low Back Pain: Randomized Controlled Trial
CompletedNot applicableNCT06407492
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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)
To compare the effectiveness of classical physiotherapy and leech therapy in patients with chronic low back pain.
Study details
- Official title
- Comparison of the Effectiveness of Conventional Physiotherapy and Traditional Methods ın the Treatment of Chronic Back Pain
- Conditions
- Back Pain
- Leeches
- Chronic Pain
- Interventions
- Other: Leech
- Other: Conventional Physiotherapy
- Other: Kinesiotape
- Sponsor
- Uskudar University
- Start date
- 2024-05-09
- Primary completion
- 2024-07-19
- Sex
- All
- Age range
- from 18 Years to 65 Years
- Healthy volunteers
- true
- Results posted
- No results posted in this snapshot
- Countries
- Turkey (Türkiye)
- Total sites listed
- 1
Eligibility criteria
Show eligibility criteria (verbatim from the registry)
Inclusion Criteria: * By a specialist physician (orthopedics, neurology, algology) for more than three months * low back pain confirmed throughout * Complaint of lower back pain at least three days a week in the three months before treatment * Those who do not have any blood disease * Those who do not use blood thinners Exclusion Criteria: * Regular intake of opioid analgesics * Presence of hemophilia * Presence of anemia or known erythropoietic disorder * Presence of erosive gastritis, gastrointestinal bleeding or stomach ulcer in the last three months * Immunosuppressive drugs * Wound healing disorder * Pregnancy, breastfeeding status * Presence of rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthropathy or other inflammatory joint disease
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov (US National Library of Medicine), snapshot October 2026. Check the registry for current recruiting status. Record: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06407492