The Effects of Fish Oil on Patients With Chronic Nonspecific Low Back Pain
Chronic Low Back Pain
About this trial
This is an interventional treatment trial for Chronic Low Back Pain focused on measuring low back pain, fish oil, omega 3
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion Criteria:
- Male and female aged 20-50
- Low back pain duration over 3 months and pain intensity over 40mm when assessed with 100mm VAS
Exclusion Criteria:
- History of major trauma or surgery at back
- Obvious spinal pathology on plain film (e.g. scoliosis, spondylosis, spondylolisthesis)
- Not suitable for taking fish oil or receiving physical modality treatment
- Having other inflammatory disease (e.g. rheumatic arthritis, endometriosis, ankylosing spondylitis, infection)
- Pregnancy
- Regularly taking fish oil or fatty fish more than 2 times per week
- Having coagulopathy or currently taking anti-coagulation agent
- Receiving oral or topical NSAID in the past one week
- Taking oral corticosteroid in the past 6 weeks
- Receiving local injection of corticosteroid or prolotherapy in the past 3 months
Sites / Locations
- Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital
Arms of the Study
Arm 1
Arm 2
Experimental
Placebo Comparator
Experimental group
Control group
Participants in the experimental group will take fish oil (five 1000mg fish oil soft capsules per day, each capsule containing 350mg EPA and 250mg DHA) and receive physical modality treatment (hotpacking 15min and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) 15min, three times a week) for 8 weeks
Participants in the control group will take placebo (five 1000mg sunflower oil soft capsules per day) and receive physical modality treatment (hotpacking 15min and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) 15min, three times a week) for 8 weeks