Spinal adjustment may offer fast back pain relief without drugs
NCT ID NCT07403500
First seen Jun 25, 2026 · Last updated Jun 27, 2026 · Updated 1 time
Summary
This trial tests whether spinal manipulation (a hands-on therapy) can reduce pain within 7-10 days for people with acute or subacute low back pain. It will involve 416 adults who have had pain for less than 3 months. The study compares spinal manipulation to a control treatment (peripheral manipulation) to see which works better.
What this could mean
Our plain-language read of the trial. This is informational only, not medical advice or a prediction.
- Active substance
- spinal manipulation (a hands-on therapy to adjust the lower back)
- What this could lead to
- If it works, this could provide a safer, non-drug option for short-term low back pain relief.
- What could go wrong
- This is an early-stage trial with no blinding, so results may be biased. The expected benefit is small and only short-term (7-10 days).
This is an AI summary of the original study and may miss details. Read our disclaimer.
Study facts
What this study's own registry entry says, in plain language.
- Phase
-
Not a phased trial
Phase numbers describe drug development. The registry uses this when they do not apply, as it does for trials of devices, procedures or behaviour changes, and for observational studies.
- Participants
-
About 416 people
The number the study aims to enrol. It can still change while the study runs.
- Expected to start
-
Jul 2026
An estimate. Start dates often move.
- Expected to finish
-
Mar 2027
An estimate. End dates often move.
- Lead sponsor
-
Other sponsor
The registry's catch-all category, for sponsors it does not file as a company, a government agency, or a research network.
Who can take part
This study's own entry requirements. Only the study team can say for certain whether you qualify.
- Ages
-
18 years and older
- Sex
-
Anyone
- Healthy volunteers
-
Not accepted
This study is not open to healthy volunteers. The entry requirements below say who it is open to.
Show the full entry requirements Hide the full entry requirements
Copied word for word from the study's registry entry, so the wording is the study team's rather than ours.
Inclusion Criteria: * Patients seeking treatment for low back pain present for less than 3 months, with an average intensity greater than 50 on a visual analog scale of 0-100 in the previous 48 hours. * Patients able to complete online questionnaires. * Patients who have given their free and informed consent. * Patients who are affiliated with or beneficiaries of a health insurance plan. Exclusion Criteria: * Patients with a history of back surgery, undergoing corticosteroid or morphine treatment, with acute or chronic inflammatory diseases, with psychiatric illness, or with low back pain lasting more than 3 months. * Patients who have already undergone spinal manipulation for low back pain with the investigator. * Patients participating or having participated in a therapeutic or drug study in the 3 months prior to their inclusion in this protocol. * Patients in a period of exclusion determined by another study. * Patients under legal protection, guardianship, or conservatorship. * Patients unable to give their consent. * Patients for whom it is impossible to provide informed consent. * Pregnant or breastfeeding patients.
Get updates
Get notified about this study
Sign up to get updates when this study changes or when new studies for Back pain lower back chronic are added.
Genom att skicka in godkänner du våra Användarvillkor
Conditions
The condition(s) this trial relates to.
As listed by the trial registrant
The condition terms exactly as the trial's registrant entered them.
How to take part
Only the study team decides who joins. These are the ways to reach them.
-
The places running it
1 site. The list below names each one and where it is.
-
The official record
ClinicalTrials.gov lists the study team's own contact details, including names and phone numbers. We don't republish those.
-
A doctor treating you
A doctor who knows your case can contact a study site on your behalf, and can tell you whether this study is worth pursuing at all.
Contacts and locations
Locations
-
Nimes University Hospital
Nîmes, Gard, 30029, France
More trials for these conditions
Other studies related to the condition(s) this trial covers.
- Back muscles hold clues for treating recurrent low back pain
- Can yoga ease back pain when recovery looks unlikely?
- New study tests drug-free pain relief after back surgery to cut opioid use
- New hope for back pain after surgery: injections and needling put to the test
- New tool aims to measure how chronic pain affects sex life
- Sleep hormone melatonin tested as painkiller for chronic back pain