Massage Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain

NCT01973010 ↗

Phase 2/3 Completed 150 enrolled Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine

RandomizedParallel-groupOpen-labelTreatment

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine whether massage is effective in the treatment of low back pain and to optimize clinical therapeutic schedule of massage for low back pain.

Timeline

Start: 2013-06
Primary completion: 2014-05
Completion: 2014-08

Publications

Yang M, Feng Y, Pei H, Deng S, Wang M, Xiao X, Zheng H, Lai Z, Chen J, Li X, He X, Liang F. Effectiveness of Chinese massage therapy (Tui Na) for chronic low back pain: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial. Trials. 2014 Oct 29;15:418. doi: 10.1186/1745-6215-15-418.

Drugs

Evaluation	Drug	Modality	Dose	Route
Comparator	Ibuprofen	Small molecule	—	—

Indications

No indication recorded.