Accessible Acupuncture for the Warrior With Acute Low Back Pain

• Status: Recruiting
• Trial end date: 2022-06-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

Summary

The objective of this study is to determine if auricular acupuncture and/or the acupuncture point governor vessel 26 (GV26) with manual tonification is superior to conservative management (NSAIDs) at reducing acute low back pain (less than 4 weeks in duration).

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

Details

• Lead Sponsor: laurie wallace

Criteria

**Patients must be able to get care at Nellis Air Force Base (a military installation) in order to participate in this study**

Inclusion Criteria:

• Male and Female Active Duty and DoD Beneficiaries aged 18 years or older.

• Complaints of acute back pain (4 weeks or less in duration).

Exclusion Criteria:

• Known history of underlying rheumatologic condition.

• Chronic low back pain (greater than 4 weeks in duration).

• Contraindications to NSAID use (including peptic ulcer disease, underlying coagulopathy, severe coronary artery disease, underlying renal disease, allergy, thrombocytopenia).

• Red flag symptoms of low back pain (to include bowel or bladder incontinence, sudden onset sensorineural deficits, loss of sensation in the perineal region).

• Requiring narcotic use to control symptoms.

• Patients currently taking opioid medications.

• pregnant, may be pregnant, or attempting to become pregnant