Massage Therapy for Chronic Low Back Pain

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2014-08-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

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.

• Phase: Phase 2/Phase 3
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Chengdu University of Traditional Chinese Medicine
• Treatments: Ibuprofen

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• In accordance of the diagnostic criteria of low back pain;

• Age between 20 and 55 years old;

• Not taking hormone drugs or antirheumatic drugs within the latest 2 months;

• No allergy history of hormone drugs Pain medicine;

• volunteer participation and signing an informed consent in writing.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Being pregnant or during lactation;

• Having suffered from serious psychiatric, neurologic, cardiovascular, respiratory, or renal illnesses, and so forth;

• Severe neurological deficits caused by severe lumbar disc protrusion, and operation indications;

• Receiving message therapy in past 3 months for releasing low back pain.