Recruiting

Magnetic Field Therapy

Sponsor:

Weintraub, Michael I., MD, FACP, FAAN

Code:

NCT00444990

Conditions

Low Back Pain

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Interventions

Magnetic Flex Pad

Study Details

Brief summary:

OBJECTIVE:

The objective of this study is to determine if treatment with a flex pad impregnated with static/permanent magnets that can penetrate over 70 mm may improve the quality of chronic lumbar pain with reduction of pain scores.

HYPOTHESIS:

The researchers hypothesis that the application of a flex pad active magnetic therapy vs. sham if utilized daily during waking hours can reduce back pain and/or radicular pain. The null hypothesis is that treatment of subjects with chronic back pain with exposure to static/permanent magnetic fields have no measurable effect on chronic back pain scores and will be equal to the underlying placebo.

Conditions

Low Back Pain

Study ID

NCT00444990

Start date

Feb, 2007

Status verified date

Sep, 2007

Completion date

Dec, 2007

Eligibility Criteria

Eligibility Criteria

Sex: All

Age: 18 - 70+

Healthy Volunteers: Not accepted

Inclusion Criteria:

  • Female or male subjects age 18-80.
  • Capable of understanding and complying with study protocols.
  • Chronic lumbar pain for at least six months

Exclusion Criteria:

  • Unable to understand informed consent (mental retardation, psychosis, communicative impairment).
  • Cardiac pacemaker or other mechanical internal devices.
  • Tumor in the spine/history of malignancy or tumor.
  • Pregnancy.
  • Prior spine surgery.

Study Design

Enrollment

60 participants

Anticipated

Allocation

Randomized

Intervention Model

Parallel Assignment

Primary purpose

Treatment

Interventions and Outcome Measures

Interventions

Magnetic Flex Pad

Primary outcome measure

  • VAS Pain scores/ SF 15 Pain descriptors/ PGIF/ [ Time Frame: undefined ]

Central Contacts and Locations

Central contacts

Michael I Weintraub, MD

914-941-0788miwneuro@pol.net

Susan E. Wolert

914-941-0788miwneuro@pol.net

Locations

Michael I. Weintraub, MD

Recruiting

Briarcliff Manor, New York, United States, 10510

Contacts

Michael I Weintraub, MD

914-941-0788miwneuro@pol.net

Susan E Wolert

914-941-0788miwneuro@pol.net

More Information

Sponsor

Weintraub, Michael I., MD, FACP, FAAN

Last update posted

Sep 21, 2007

Last verified

Sep, 2007

Keywords

  • Lumbar pain
  • magnets
  • Reduce low back pain

Trial information was received from ClinicalTrials.gov and was last updated on 2026-09-10. This information was provided to ClinicalTrials.gov by Weintraub, Michael I., MD, FACP, FAAN on 2007-09-21.