Radial Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy on Chronic Low Back Pain: a Prospective Controlled Study

Status

UNKNOWN

Phases

Study type

Interventional

Source

ClinicalTrials.gov

Registry ID

NCT01928784

Enrollment

Registered

2013-08-27

Start date

2013-06-30

Completion date

2013-09-30

Last updated

2013-08-27

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Conditions

Low Back Pain

Keywords

Low back pain, extracorporeal shock wave therapy, Trigger Points

Brief summary

The aim of this prospective study is to explore the pain-alleviating effect of low-energy extracorporeal shock wave therapy(ESWT) in patients with chronic low back pain.

Detailed description

26 patients who suffered from persistent symptoms for more than 3 months are going to be treated with DOLORCLAST radial extracorporeal shock wave(EMS, Swiss). Patients are assigned to two groups according to the exist of specific pain spot. Group I(have specific pain spot) received a total of 2000 impulses of 2.5 Bar; group II(controls, no specific pain spot) 4000 impulses of 2.5 Bar. Patients is going to be treated once. The efficacy of therapy is going to be evaluated by VAS scale before and after the treatment.

Interventions

DEVICERadial Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy 2000 impulses

Radial Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy, 13 Hz, 2.5 Bar, 2000 impulses

DEVICERadial Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy 4000 impulses

Radial Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy, 13 Hz, 2.5 Bar, 4000 impulses

Study design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Intervention model

PARALLEL

Primary purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Eligibility

Sex/Gender

ALL

Age

18 Years to 60 Years

Healthy volunteers

Inclusion criteria

* Symptom of low back pain during last 4 weeks * Low back pain history for more than 3 months

Exclusion criteria

* Have lower limbs radiating pain beyond knee joints * Spinal tumorous or infectious disease, fracture, ankylosing spondylitis, cauda equina syndrome or other severe spinal diseases * Spinal surgical history * Severe heart, lung, liver, kidney disease or high blood pressure * With cardiac pacemaker * Coagulopathy or thrombosis * Have ESW therapy or pharmaceutical treatment for low back pain during last 1 months * Mental illnesses or none cooperation * Pregnancy

Design outcomes

Primary

Measure	Time frame	Description
Change in Visual analogue scale scores(VAS) of patients before and after therapy	baseline, 1 hour after therapy	Change of Visual analogue scale score(VAS) of patients before and after shock wave therapy

Countries

China

Contacts

Primary ContactWei Tian, MD

drliuyajun@163.com+86-010-58516688

Outcome results

None listed

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Data processed: Feb 4, 2026