The Effectiveness of Wet Cupping on Persistent Non-specific Low Back Pain

Completed 37 enrolled Korea Institute of Oriental Medicine

RandomizedParallel-groupOpen-labelTreatment

Summary

The hypothesis of this study is that the improvement of Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) for Pain at the end of the study will be greater in the Wet Cupping Treatment group than in the Waiting Control group.

Timeline

Start: 2009-06
Primary completion: 2009-12
Completion: —

Publications

Kim JI, Kim TH, Lee MS, Kang JW, Kim KH, Choi JY, Kang KW, Kim AR, Shin MS, Jung SY, Choi SM. Evaluation of wet-cupping therapy for persistent non-specific low back pain: a randomised, waiting-list controlled, open-label, parallel-group pilot trial. Trials. 2011 Jun 10;12:146. doi: 10.1186/1745-6215-12-146.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Background	Acetaminophen	Small molecule	500 mg	—

Indications

No indication recorded.