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Real-World Retrospective Cohort Study on Shi's Traumatology Manipulation, Acupuncture, and Their Combination in Treating Lumbar Disc Herniation

Real-World Retrospective Cohort Study on Shi's Traumatology Manipulation, Acupuncture, and Their Combination in Treating Lumbar Disc Herniation

Status
Active, not recruiting
Phases
Unknown
Study type
Observational
Source
ITMCTR
Registry ID
ITMCTR2026001008
Enrollment
Unknown
Registered
2026-04-17
Start date
2026-05-01
Completion date
Unknown
Last updated
2026-04-28

For informational purposes only — not medical advice. Sourced from public registries and may not reflect the latest updates. Terms

Conditions

Lumbar Disc Herniation

Interventions

Shi's Traumatology Manual Therapy Group:Shi's Traumatology Manual Therapy
Acupuncture group:Acupuncture
Combined Shi's Traumatology Manual Therapy and Acupuncture Group:Manual Therapy Combined with Acupuncture

Sponsors

Xiangshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Huangpu District, Shanghai
Lead Sponsor

Eligibility

Sex/Gender
All
Age
18 Years to 75 Years

Inclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: (1) Patients hospitalized and discharged from our hospital between 2020-01-01 and 2024-12-31 (indexed by discharge date). (2) Aged 18-75 years, any gender. (3) Discharge diagnosis of LDH with corresponding imaging evidence; refer to medical record homepage, hospitalization records and hospital coding (e.g., ICD-10/institutional code M51.202). (4) Received one of the following primary treatment strategies during hospitalization for clear group assignment: 1) Shi's Traumatology Manual Therapy (SMG); 2) Acupuncture (SAG); 3) Combined Shi's Traumatology Manual Therapy and Acupuncture (SCG). (5) Relatively complete medical records allowing extraction of baseline VAS/ODI and essential covariates (age, gender, BMI, disease duration, spinal segments/type, smoking, exercise, etc.).

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion criteria: (1) Comorbidities with severe spinal tumors, infections, fractures, or other non-degenerative etiologies causing low back/leg pain/neurological symptoms. (2) History of lumbar spine surgery. (3) Unclear hospitalization records or main treatment strategies not belonging to the three study groups. (4) Severe missing key variables preventing propensity score modeling/matching. (5) Inability to extract primary outcomes or key covariates from existing medical records, outpatient visits, imaging, or follow-up data.

Design outcomes

Primary

MeasureTime frame
Visual Analog Pain Scale;Oswestry Disability Index;—

Secondary

MeasureTime frame
12-month recurrence rate;—

Countries

China

Contacts

Public ContactGuang-Ming Liu

Xiangshan Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Huangpu District, Shanghai

lgmyyyy@163.com13916093705

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ITMCTR (via WHO ICTRP) · Data processed: May 1, 2026