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NCT Number: NCT04956458

The Efficacy and Safety of Lumbar MSAT on Acute Low Back Pain

This study is a single blind, randomized controlled trail. condition/disease: acute low back pain treatment/intervention: motion style acupuncture treatment

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Key information

Conditions

Low Back Pain Back Pain Neurologic Manifestations Pain Pathological Conditions, Signs and Symptoms Signs and Symptoms

Age range

19 year–70 year

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Not applicable

Primary location

Jaseng Hospital of Korean Medicine

Seoul, Gangnam-Gu, 135-896, South Korea

About this study

"Motion Style Acupuncture Treatment(MSAT)" is a therapeutic technique using acupuncture needle created in Jaseng Hospital. This treatment involves patients with musculoskeletal pain to move the part of their body actively during acupuncture treatment under physicians' observation. This treatment is known to relieve the pain and increase the range of motion(ROM). However, there has been no specific value for the effect of this treatment.

So, the investigators will conduct a randomized controlled trials to verify the efficacy and safety of Lumbar MSAT. From March 2021 to December 2021, the investigators will collect 96 inpatients who are suffered from Low back pain with the numeric rating scale(NRS) over 5 after injury by acute traffic accident(TA). For experimental group(n=48), the investigators will conduct MSAT three times(on 2nd, 3rd and 4th day of hospitalization) and other Korean medical treatment. For control group(n=48), just Korean medical treatment except MSAT will be conducted. For these two groups, the investigators will compare NRS, Visual Analogue Scale(VAS), Range Of Motion(ROM), Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) and EuroQol 5-Dimension (EQ-5D), Patient Global Impression of Change (PGIC)."

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Criteria: Inclusion Criteria:

  • Patients who needs hospitalization due to acute low back pain that occurred within 7 days after traffic accident
  • Patients with NRS ≥ 5 for low back pain
  • Patients aged 19-70 years on the date they sign the consent form
  • Patients who provide consent to participate in the trial and return the informed consent form

Exclusion criteria

  • Patients with a specific serious disease that may cause spinal pain: malignancy, spondylitis, inflammatory spondylitis, etc.
  • Patients with progressive neurological deficits or with severe neurological symptoms- Patients who have had surgery or procedures within the last three weeks
  • The cause of pain is due to soft tissue disease, not the spine: tumors, fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, etc.
  • Patients with other chronic conditions that may interfere with the interpretation of the therapeutic effects or results: cardiovascular disease, kidney disease, diabetic neuropathy, dementia, epilepsy, etc.
  • Patients who are taking steroids, immunosuppressants, mental illness drugs, or other drugs that may affect the results of the study
  • If acupuncture is inadequate or unsafe: patients with hemorrhagic, receiving anticoagulants, severe diabetes and cardiovascular disease
  • Patients who are pregnant or planning to become pregnant
  • Patients with a serious mental illness
  • Patients who are participated in clinical trials other than observational studies without therapeutic intervention.
  • Patients who are difficult to complete the research participation agreement
  • Other patients whose participation in the trial is judged by a researcher to be problematic

Treatment and study plan

Lumbar motion style acupuncture treatment

Procedure

Motion Style Acupuncture Treatment(MSAT) is a therapeutic technique using acupuncture needle created in Jaseng Hospital. This treatment involves patients with musculoskeletal pain to move the part of their body actively during acupuncture treatment under physicians' observation

Korean medical treatment

Procedure

acupuncture treatment, chuna, pharmacoacupuncture, Korean herbal medicine

Primary outcomes

  1. Numeric Rating Scale(NRS) of Low back pain

    Time frame: Change from baseline NRS at 4 days

    The extent of Low back pain and discomfort will be assessed using NRS. NRS is a pain scale in which the patient indicates their subjective pain as a whole number from 0 to 10. The participant is asked to report their low back pain and discomfort using NRS, where 0 indicates 'no pain or discomfort' and 10 indicates 'the most severe pain and discomfort imaginable'.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) of Low back pain

    Time frame: Baseline(day2), day3, day4, day of discharge(up to 14days)

    VAS is an assessment index in which the patient records their pain on a 100mm line from 'no pain' at one end, and 'the most severe pain imaginable' at the other end.

  2. Numeric Rating Scale(NRS) of leg pain

    Time frame: Baseline(day2), day3, day4, day of discharge(up to 14days), week12

    NRS is a pain scale in which the patient indicates their subjective pain as a whole number from 0 to 10. The participant is asked to report their leg pain and discomfort using NRS, where 0 indicates 'no pain or discomfort' and 10 indicates 'the most severe pain and discomfort imaginable'.

  3. Visual Analogue Scale (VAS) of leg pain

    Time frame: Baseline(day2), day3, day4, day of discharge(up to 14days)

    VAS is an assessment index in which the patient records their pain on a 100mm line from 'no pain' at one end, and 'the most severe pain imaginable' at the other end.

  4. Physical examination (Lumbar range of motion)

    Time frame: Baseline(day2), day3, day4, day of discharge(up to 14days)

    ROM of flexion, extension, lateral flexion, rotation will be measured.

  5. Oswestry Disability Index (ODI)

    Time frame: Baseline(day2), day4, day of discharge(up to 14days), week12

    The Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) is a 10-item questionnaire that measures a patient's self-reported Low back pain related disability.

  6. EuroQol 5-Dimension (EQ-5D)

    Time frame: Baseline(day2), day3, day4, day of discharge(up to 14days), week12

    The EQ-5D is a method of indirectly calculating the weights of certain health states for quality of life after a multidimensional investigation of health states, and is the most widely used instrument for this purpose. The EQ-5D consists of 5 questions about current health state (mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain, anxiety/depression), and each question is scored on a 5-point Likert scale (1=no problems, 3=moderate problems, 5=severe problems). In this study, the investigators will use the Korean version of the EQ-5D, which has been demonstrated to be valid.

  7. Patient Global Impression of Change(PGIC)

    Time frame: day4, day of discharge(up to 14days), week12

    The PGIC is an index that assesses improvements in functional limitation caused by whiplash injury. Participants rate the improvement in functional limitations after treatment on a 7-point Likert scale (1=Very much improved, 4=No change, 7=Very much worse). This index was originally developed for use in Psychology, but is currently used in various other medical fields to assess improvements in pain.

  8. Adverse events

    Time frame: Baseline(day2), day3, day4, day of discharge(up to 14days)

    Check adverse events every visit

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

Jaseng Medical Foundation

Other

Registry information

Official study title

The Efficacy and Safety of Lumbar MSAT on Inpatients With Acute Low Back Pain Caused by Traffic Accidents: A Randomized Controlled Trials

Important dates

Study start
2021
Primary completion
2021
Study completion
2021
First posted
Jul 9, 2021
Registry last updated
Aug 10, 2022

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