nonspecific low back pain
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: ?Patients with chronic non-specific low back pain. (Refer to the 2020 North American Spine Association (NASS) Evidence-Based Medicine guidelines for nonspecific low back pain: Patients 18 years of age and older; Pain comes from referred or non-root pain.) ?Age ranges from 18 to 60 years old and gender is not limited. ? The course of the disease lasted more than 12 weeks, and the VAS score was =4 points. ? Supporting this study and signing informed consent, assisting physicians to complete the whole study process. ? No other treatment was used for lumbago.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: ? pregnancy; ? Specific low back pain (tumor, infection, metabolic disease, rheumatoid arthritis, fracture); ? Spinal deformity (spondylolishesis , spondylolysis or scoliosis); ? Pain below the knee; ? Extra-spinal diseases (such as vascular and genitourinary diseases); ? History of lumbar surgery; ? "lumbar disc herniation", "lumbar spinal stenosis" and other root pain; ?Lumbago with =2 other areas of pain ? Patients who received acupuncture treatment in the past 1 month of the experiment.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Visual analog pain scale (VAS); | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Muscle cross-sectional area (CSA) ; | — |
Countries
China
Contacts
The First Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou University of Chinese Medicine