Massage and Electroacupuncture in Chronic Lumbar Pain

• Status: Not yet recruiting
• Trial end date: 2024-12-31
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The aim of this study is to evaluate and compare in patients with chronic back pain two therapeutic interventions: a) the combination of massage and electroacupuncture; and b) the application of epidural analgesia in pain, functioning-incompetence, quality of life and mood.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: University of Thessaly

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients suffering from lumbar pain of benign etiology

• Age 20 to 65 years

Exclusion Criteria:

• Ages over 65 or below 20 years

• Neoplasms (benign or malignant etiology)

• Contagious or infectious disease

• Dermopathy

• Pregnancy

• Alcohol or drug use

• Previous use of epidural analgesia

• Systemic opioid use

• Severe heart disease

• Fever for more than one sessions

• Allergy to the oil which will be used and its derivatives

• Thrombi or varicose veins

• Psychiatric disease