Radio waves for muscle or low back pain and function
Part of Injuries & trauma, Pain clinical trials.
This trial tests whether a high-frequency radio-wave treatment can reduce pain and improve movement in adults with a muscle strain (hamstring) or acute or chronic low back pain. It may help you feel less pain and function better, depending on your specific injury and medical details.
Summary written for real people, not researchers, by Clin2.
Who can take part
- Be 18 years or older.
- For hamstring strain: be an amateur soccer player or sprinter with regular training, and have a suspected mild hamstring (grade I or II) injury that stopped training.
- For acute low back pain: pain must be between the lower ribs and the top of the buttocks, and happen on fewer than half of the days in the last 6 months with pain at least 6/10.
- For chronic low back pain: low back pain must have happened on at least half of the days in the last 6 months, with pain at least 20% on the pain scale used in the study.
- Avoid certain situations: no same-side hamstring injury in the last 6 months, no spinal fracture/inflammatory spine disease, and do not be pregnant (and avoid certain recent treatments/medicines).
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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